Hans Grisebach (biochemist)

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Hans Rudolf Grisebach (born February 7, 1926 in Breslau ; † March 13, 1990 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) was a German biochemist .

Hans Grisebach was the son of the art historian August Grisebach . His mother Hanna Grisebach geb. Blumenthal came from a Berlin emancipated Jewish factory owner family, which is why August Grisebach was forced to retire in Heidelberg in 1937 and lost his university professorship. From 1937 to 1945 the family survived in Potsdam, where they had connections with a pastor of the Confessing Church .

After the end of the war, Grisebach studied chemistry in Heidelberg , where he received his doctorate in 1951. From 1951 to 1953 he was a research assistant in Heidelberg and Tübingen and, after a research stay with Melvin Calvin in Berkeley, an assistant at the TU Berlin .

In 1960 Grisebach completed his habilitation in Freiburg . At the same university he became an associate professor in 1963 and a year later full professor of biochemistry.

His main areas of research were the biosynthesis of phenylpropane compounds ( flavonoids , lignin ) in higher plants, the biosynthesis of antibiotics and the induction mechanisms of plant antibodies.

In 1990, BASF donated the Hans Grisebach Prize in honor of Grisebach. It is awarded annually for excellent dissertations in the field of biology and molecular biology and is endowed with 1,300 euros.

In 1976 Grisebach was appointed a member of the Leopoldina .

Hans Grisebach's sister is the literary scholar and former politician of the Greens Manon Andreas-Grisebach .

literature

  • Hanna Grisebach: Potsdam Diary. With an afterword by Hilde Domin . Schneider, Heidelberg 1974.
  • K. Hahlbrock: Obituary: Hans Grisebach 1926-1990. In: Zeitschrift für Naturforschung C , Journal of biosciences. Volume 45, Numbers 3-4, 1990 Mar-Apr, ISSN  0939-5075 , pp. 140-142, PMID 2194484 .
  • Joachim Schröder: Hans Grisebach in memory. Freiburg University Gazette 29: 9 1990, 108.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ BASF AG sponsors the Hans Grisebach Prize , Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg, February 4, 2005
personal data
SURNAME Grisebach, Hans
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Grisebach, Hans Rudolf (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German biochemist
DATE OF BIRTH February 7, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Wroclaw
DATE OF DEATH March 13, 1990
Place of death Freiburg in Breisgau