Hans Thierfelder (Physiologist)

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Hans Thierfelder (born February 22, 1858 in Rostock , † November 11, 1930 in Tübingen ) was a German biochemist.

biography

Thierfelder came from a family of doctors in Rostock (his father was Theodor Thierfelder , professor at the university and head of the medical clinic in Rostock ) and studied medicine at the universities of Rostock , Tübingen , Heidelberg , Munich and Freiburg im Breisgau . In Tübingen he became a member of the Derendingia fraternity in the winter semester of 1877/78 . He passed his state examination in Freiburg and received his doctorate in 1883 under Otto Nasse in Rostock .

Since Thierfelder wanted to embark on a scientific career, he went to Strasbourg in 1884 as an assistant to Felix Hoppe-Seyler , where he completed his habilitation in physiology in 1887 . In 1891 he succeeded Robert Koch as curator at the Hygienic Museum in Berlin and at the same time he was a private lecturer in physiological chemistry at the Humboldt University in Berlin . In 1895 he became an associate professor and head of the chemical department of the Physiological Institute. From 1909 he was a professor at the University of Tübingen , where he became head of the physiological-chemical institute. He was a secret medical advisor .

Thierfelder examined cerebrosides , including the cerebron.

He was co-editor of the manual of the physiological and pathological-chemical analysis by Hoppe-Seyler after his death (from the 7th to 9th edition as sole editor).

Ernst Klenk is one of his students in Tübingen . In 1908 he became a member of the Leopoldina .

Hermann Thierfelder and Rudolf Thierfelder came from his marriage to Luise von Beseler (1873–1945) .

Fonts

  • The chemistry of cerebrosides and phosphatides (monographs from the entire field of the physiology of plants and animals; Vol. 19). Springer, Berlin 1930 (together with Ernst Klenk).

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ernst Elsheimer (ed.): Directory of the old fraternity members according to the status of the winter semester 1927/28. Frankfurt am Main 1928, p. 524.

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personal data
SURNAME Thierfelder, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German biochemist
DATE OF BIRTH February 22, 1858
PLACE OF BIRTH Rostock
DATE OF DEATH November 11, 1930
Place of death Tübingen