Franz Hofmeister
Franz Hofmeister (born August 30, 1850 in Prague , † July 26, 1922 in Würzburg ) was a Bohemian biochemist .
life and work
Franz Hofmeister studied medicine at the University of Prague under Karl Hugo Huppert and completed his habilitation in 1879 on physiological aspects of digestive processes under Oswald Schmiedeberg . He received a professorship in Prague in 1885 and moved to Strasbourg University in 1896 . His successor in Prague was Julius Pohl .
Hofmeister's main focus was protein chemistry . At the meeting of German naturalists and doctors in Karlsbad in 1902, he was the first to propose, independently and simultaneously with Emil Fischer, a structure of proteins from amino acids with peptide bonds .
The Hofmeister series , which specifies the effect of ions on the water solubility of proteins , is named after him . This series is still important for the purification of peptides today.
literature
- Hofmeister Franz. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 2, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1959, p. 387.
- Otto Hoffmann-Osterhof: Hofmeister, Franz. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 9, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1972, ISBN 3-428-00190-7 , p. 470 ( digitized version ).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ biographical data, publications and Academic pedigree of Franz Hofmeister in academictree.org, accessed on February 12 2018th
- ^ Theodor Wieland: History of Peptide Chemistry, in: Bernd Gutte (Ed.), Peptides, Academic Press 1995, p. 2
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hofmeister, Franz |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | bohemian biochemist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 30, 1850 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Prague |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 26, 1922 |
| Place of death | Wurzburg |