Franz Meußdoerffer (biochemist)
Franz Georg Meußdoerffer (born April 6, 1949 in Kulmbach ; † August 9, 2019 in Breitbrunn am Chiemsee ) was a German biochemist and university professor .
Life
Meußdoerffer came from a Franconian brewer and maltster family, his father was the entrepreneur Franz Erich Meußdoerffer (1918-2004). After graduating from high school, he studied chemistry at the TH Aachen from 1967 to 1974 and did his doctorate at the Biochemical Institute of the University of Freiburg . In 1978 he went to the USA for two years. From 1982 to 1986 he was senior assistant at the Institute for Biotechnology at the ETH Zurich . From 1986 to 1991 he worked for the Henkel Group . Since 1991 he has been the managing partner of the Kulmbach malt house , which was founded in 1852 by his great-great-grandfather Johann Georg Meußdoerffer (1824–1878) (today part of the Kulmbacher brewery ). In 1989 his habilitation followed. From 1996 he was an adjunct professor in Dortmund. Since 2003 he has given lectures on the history of beer brewing at the TUM Campus Internationales Beverage Science Center Weihenstephan or at its predecessor. Since 2009 he has headed the bioanalytics working group at the Research Center for Food Quality at the Kulmbach site of the University of Bayreuth.
Meußdoerffer died in August 2019 at the age of 70.
Publications
- Studies on inhibitors of proteinase A from yeast . Freiburg (Breisgau) 1978, DNB 790909324 (dissertation, University of Freiburg).
- A Comprehensive History of Beer Brewing . In: Handbook of Brewing: Processes, Technology, Markets. Ed. by HM Eßlinger. Weinheim 2009. ISBN 978-3-527-31674-8
- Ulrich Wirz, Franz G. Meußdoerffer (ed.): Around the Plassenburg: Studies on the history of the city of Kulmbach and its castle . Friends of Plassenburg eV, Kulmbach 2003, ISBN 3-925162-21-6 .
- with Martin Zarnkow: The beer - a story of hops and malt. CH Beck-Verlag: München 2014; 2nd, revised edition 2016
Web links
- Literature by and about Franz Meußdoerffer in the catalog of the German National Library
- Prof. Dr. Franz Meußdoerffer †
- Entry in Who is Who? ( Memento from February 12, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
Individual evidence
- ^ Advertisement by Franz Meußdoerffer | trauer.inFranken.de. Retrieved August 26, 2019 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Meußdoerffer, Franz |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Meußdoerffer, Franz Georg |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 6, 1949 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kulmbach |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 9, 2019 |
| Place of death | Breitbrunn am Chiemsee |