Franz Bergel
Franz Bergel (born February 13, 1900 in Vienna , † January 1, 1987 in Bel Royal, Jersey ) was an Austro-British biochemist .
Life
Bergel was the second son of the wine merchant Moritz Martin Bergel, an emigrant from Hungary, and his wife Barbara Betty, née. Spitz, the daughter of a carpet manufacturer. After attending a secondary school in Vienna and briefly participating in the First World War with the Austro-Hungarian Army , he studied at the universities of Würzburg and Freiburg .
In 1924 Bergel received his doctorate with a thesis on oxidation processes in Freiburg. In 1929 he completed his habilitation as a private lecturer at the same university. From 1927 to 1933 Bergel was head of the department for medicinal chemistry at the Institute for Chemistry at the University of Freiburg and from 1929 to 1933 he took on teaching duties as a private lecturer.
After the seizure of power by the National Socialists Bergel emigrated to Britain. From 1933 to 1938 he was a researcher at the Medical Chemistry Department of Edinburgh University and then at the Lister Institute of Preventive Medicine in London . In Edinburgh, he worked with AR Todd at the elucidation of the structure and synthesis of vitamin B 1 and the isolation of Vitamin E .
In 1938 Bergel received a Ph.D. - Degree from the University of London . In the same year he was naturalized in Great Britain.
From 1938 to 1952 Bergel served as director of the research division of Roche Products Ltd in Welwyn Garden City . There he worked on synthetic analgesics , cannabinoids , antibacterials and vitamins . Since 1946 he was also an honorary lecturer at University College in London.
At the end of the 1930s, the National Socialist police officers classified Bergel as an important target: In the spring of 1940, the Reich Security Main Office in Berlin put him on the special wanted list GB , a directory of people whom the Nazi surveillance apparatus considered particularly dangerous or important, which is why they should be in the case A successful invasion and occupation of the British Isles by the Wehrmacht should be located and arrested by the occupying troops following special SS commandos with special priority.
From 1952 to 1966, Bergel was a professor of chemistry at the Chester Beatty Research Institute of Cancer Research at the Royal Cancer Hospital in London. From 1963 to 1966 he was the dean. In 1966 he retired.
In 1959/1960 and from 1967, Bergel was a guest lecturer at the Children's Cancer Research Foundation at Harvard University and a specialist consultant at Harvard Medical School .
Bergel's research focus was cancer research , especially chemotherapy. He also initiated the biochemical investigation of tumors in order to extract essential nutrients from certain tumors by means of enzyme therapy.
1959 Bergel was accepted as a Fellow in the Royal Society . He was also a member of the Biochemistry Society and the American Association for the Advancement of Science .
literature
- William D. Rubinstein / Michael Jolles / Hilary L. Rubinstein: The Palgrave Dictionary of Anglo-Jewish History , p. 78.
- Susanne Blumesberger, Michael Doppelhofer, Gabriele Mauthe: Handbook of Austrian authors of Jewish origin from the 18th to the 20th century . Volume 2: J-R. Edited by the Austrian National Library. Saur, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-598-11545-8 , p. 763.
Fonts
- On the mechanism of the oxidation processes: On the oxidative degradation of amino acids , 1924.
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bergel, Franz |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austro-British biochemist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 13, 1900 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 1, 1987 |
| Place of death | Bel Royal, Jersey |