Hans Molitor

The title of this article is ambiguous. For the German historian of a similar name, see Hansgeorg Molitor .

Hans Molitor (born August 10, 1895 in Maffersdorf , Bohemia , † September 1970 in New Jersey ) was an Austro-American pharmacologist .

Life

Hans Molitor was a son of Emil Molitor, a community doctor in Maffersdorf in northern Bohemia. As a graduate of the Realgymnasium in Reichenberg in Northern Bohemia, Hans Molitor became a student of pharmacology and medicine at the University of Vienna , where he did his doctorate in medicine. During the First World War he was a military doctor in the Austro-Hungarian army, after the end of the war he was a research assistant at the University of Vienna, where he was a lecturer in pharmacology and therapeutics in 1927 and an associate professor in 1930 .

On behalf of the pharmaceutical factory Merck and Co. in Darmstadt, Hans Molitor took over the management of the American subsidiary in Rahway in New Jersey, USA in 1932, lived from then on in the United States of America and was director of the Merck Institute for until his retirement therapeutic research in Rahway , New Jersey , then chairman of the board of directors .

Hans Molitor was a member of scientific organizations, a. a. the Society of Doctors in Vienna , the Royal Society of Medicine in London and the German Pharmacological Society. He published over 60 papers on his research in journals and compilations. His main areas of work were the development of antibiotics , streptothricin , a precursor of streptomycin, and the further development of sulfonamide and vitamin preparations. Prof. Dr. Hans Molitor is an honorary citizen of the University of Vienna .

Fonts

• The permanent displacement of organs from the inside of the body in front of the skin, in: Handbuch der Biologische Arbeitsverarbeitung 4, 1937.
• The pharmokologie of Streptomycin, in: SA Waksman: Streptomycin - nature and practical application, 1949.

literature

• Biographical lexicon on the history of the Bohemian countries, edited by Heribert Sturm on behalf of the Collegium Carolinum Volume II, Munich 1984, page 688.
• Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar, 19.
• Isidor Fischer : Biographical Lexicon of the Outstanding Doctors of the Last 50 Years, Volume 2.
• A. Jäger: History of the localities Maffersdorf, Proschwitz and Neuwald, Reichenberg 1865.
• Reichenberg - City and Country in the Neißetal, A home book edited by Dr Ing Randolf Gränzer, Augsburg 1974, page 234.
• Who is who in America 5, 1975.
• Reichenberger Zeitung from September 11, 1970.
• Süddeutsche Zeitung of August 21, 1970.