Friedrich Eiden

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Friedrich Eiden (born August 29, 1925 in Trier ; † March 6, 2017 ) was a German chemist and professor of pharmacy and food chemistry at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich .

Life

Friedrich Eiden was born in 1925 as the son of a lawyer. In his hometown of Trier he attended elementary school and grammar school , then switched to a private school in Hamburg and passed the school leaving examination . During the Second World War he served in the Wehrmacht and was taken prisoner in 1943, where he remained until 1945. After the war he worked as an intern in a pharmacy in Bremen .

From 1949 to 1952 Eiden studied pharmacy at the University of Marburg and received the pharmacist license after passing the state examination in pharmacy. From 1955 he completed a chemistry degree in Marburg, which he completed as a graduate chemist. In 1955 he was promoted to Dr. phil. PhD in pharmaceutical chemistry (with Horst Böhme ). He wrote his dissertation on diaminomethane derivatives and their salts . He then worked as Boehme's assistant and for the Darmstadt-based company Merck .

After a two-year DFG grant, Eiden worked as an assistant at the Pharmaceutical-Chemical Institute at the University of Marburg from 1959. There he obtained the license to teach (Venia legendi) in pharmaceutical chemistry in 1961 and began to teach as a private lecturer . In 1963 he received the Carl Mannich grant from the German Pharmaceutical Society . From 1964 he taught first as an associate professor and from the following year as a full professor at the Free University of Berlin . There he was director of the Pharmaceutical Institute. In 1969 he turned down a call to Marburg and instead became the holder of the chair for pharmaceutical chemistry at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . From 1969 to 1994 he was a member of the board of directors of the Institute for Pharmacy and Food Chemistry at the University of Munich. In 1982 he became a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina .

His fields of work were the synthesis and analysis of drugs.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Friedrich Eiden obituary notice. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . Süddeutscher Verlag, March 17, 2017, accessed on March 20, 2017 .
  2. ↑ a b c Fritz Eiden. In: Catalogus Professorum Academiae Marburgensis: the academic teachers of the Philipps University in Marburg. Vol. 2, Elwert, Marburg 1979.
  3. ↑ Member entry of Friedrich Eiden (with picture) at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on July 4, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Eiden, Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Eiden, Fritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German chemist
DATE OF BIRTH August 29, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Trier , German Empire
DATE OF DEATH March 6, 2017