Gertrud Rehner

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Gertrud Rehner (born November 6, 1926 in Târgu Mureș , Romania ; † February 26, 2019 ) was a German nutritionist .

Life

Gertrud Rehner studied and obtained her doctorate from 1947 to 1957 at the Leopold-Franzens-University Innsbruck with a major in biology and a minor in philosophy, physics and psychology. She graduated from Dr. phil. and from 1958 was a research assistant at the Institute for Biochemistry of Vital Substances and Nutrition in Dachau. In 1960 she came to the Institute of Food Science of the University of Giessen and was in 1963 appointed to the Scientific assistant. From 1968 to 1969 Rehner continued his education at the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Physiology in Dortmund, before being appointed to the professorship of Human Nutrition Biochemistry and Nutritional Physiology at Giessen University in 1971 . Her research focus was the kinetics of the intestinal uptake of vitamins and trace elements. In 1992 Rehner retired.

engagement

In the university committees, but also in the German research landscape, Rehner was committed to the scientific expansion of nutritional sciences. She researched and published in order to make known the "correct diet" that is applicable in each case. Rehner contributed to numerous fundamental publications in her field.

Works

Individual evidence

  1. Gertrud Rehner † February 26th, 2019 . In: trauer.mittelhessen.de, accessed on March 11, 2019