Felix Michael Haurowitz

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Felix Michael Haurowitz (born March 1, 1896 in Prague , † December 2, 1987 in Bloomington , Indiana ) was a Czech - American biochemist .

Life

From 1930 Haurowitz was professor of physiological chemistry at the Charles University in Prague . In the summer of 1938, Haurowitz spent a guest stay with Albert Fischer at the Carlsberg Laboratory in Copenhagen, when the Munich Agreement sealed Hitler's diplomatic victory. Bypassing Germany, Haurowitz traveled back to CSR, where he served as a military doctor. His family was already sitting there on their suitcases, remembering the Jewish experiences during the invasion of Austria. Charles University, now known as “German”, dismissed its numerous “non-Aryan” employees, including Haurowitz, in the autumn of 1938 without recognizing any kuk patriotic awards. Two weeks after the occupation of Prague , Felix Haurowitz emigrated with his family to Istanbul and in April 1939 became professor and director of the Institute for Biological and Medicinal Chemistry at the University of Istanbul . In 1948 he went as a professor at Indiana University in Bloomington.

He did significant work on protein biochemistry and the immune system . Together with Anton Breinl , he developed a theory of antibody formation in 1930 .

In 1925 he married Regina Perutz, a cousin of Max Perutz . Haurowitz had worked on hemoglobin since the 1920s . When he met Perutz in 1937, Haurowitz suggested that Perutz should also look more closely at hemoglobin.

In 1956 he was admitted to the Leopoldina and was awarded the Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize in 1960 . In 1970 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and in 1975 to the National Academy of Sciences .

Works

  • Biochemistry of humans and animals (1925)
  • Advances in Biochemistry (1932)
  • Chemistry and Biology of Proteins (1949)
  • Immunochemistry and the Biosynthesis of Antibodies (1950)
  • Biochemistry: an Introductory Textbook. New York: J. Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1955.

source

  • Lexicon of natural scientists. Berlin 2004.

literature

  • Alois Kernbauer: Felix Haurowitz and Zdenko Stary. Two world-class biochemists from old Austria and their work at the German university in Prague, Turkey and the USA. In: Türk Tip Tarihi Yilligi. Acta Turcica Historiae Medicinae IV: Negotiations of the symposium on the university reform of Ataturk and medicine at that time. October 25, 1996. Ed. Arslan Terzioglu, Erwin Lucius, Istanbul 1997, pp. 59-67.
  • Felix Haurowitz , in: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 51/1980 of December 8, 1980, in the Munzinger Archive ( beginning of article freely available)

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personal data
SURNAME Haurowitz, Felix Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czech-American biochemist
DATE OF BIRTH March 1, 1896
PLACE OF BIRTH Prague
DATE OF DEATH 2nd December 1987
Place of death Bloomington , Indiana