Hermann Matthes (food chemist)

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Hermann Matthes (born June 30, 1869 in Eisenach , † March 10, 1931 in Königsberg (Prussia) ) was a German food chemist and pharmacist.

Life

Hermann Matthes was born as the son of the secret medical councilor Peter Matthes, personal physician to Grand Duke Carl Alexander of Saxe-Weimar . He attended the secondary school in Eisenach. From 1886 to 1888 he completed a pharmaceutical apprenticeship in Ilmenau and Weimar. From 1891 he studied pharmacy at the University of Jena . In 1893 he passed the state examination. From 1895 to 1896 he studied food chemistry with Albert Hilger at the University of Munich . After the food chemist exam, he returned to Jena, where he in 1897 at Ludwig Knorr with a dissertation on the topic About methylethanolamine, and Methyldiäthyläthanolamin methylmorpholine Dr. phil. received his doctorate. In 1899 he completed his habilitation in Jena for pharmacy and food chemistry. In 1901 he became head of department in the Chemical Institute of the University of Jena. In 1902 he was appointed associate professor and appointed to the board of the pharmaceutical institute that he had founded and the food investigation office. In the summer of 1918 he was given a full professorship in pharmacy at the University of Strasbourg, which he had to give up after the end of the First World War . Subsequently he was director of I. Stapelfaserfabrik für Volksbekleidung AG in Arnstadt and Stafe AG. In 1920 he became a full professor of Pharmacy and director of the pharmaceutical and chemical laboratory at the University of Königsberg appointed, where he worked until his death 1931st

Matthes worked on the analysis of pharmaceuticals and foodstuffs, in particular the components of cocoa and the unsaponifiable components of fats , as well as the testing of staple fibers . He was the author of more than 100 scientific publications. He wrote numerous contributions to the 2nd edition of the Real Encyclopedia of the Whole Pharmacy (1904–14) published by Hermann Thoms and to its handbook of practical and scientific pharmacy (1924–31). He was the old gentleman of the Corps Rheno-Guestphalia Leipzig.

Fonts

  • Annual reports of the Jena Food Inspection Office , 1903–1918
  • Explanations of the examination regulations newly included in DAB6 , 1927
  • 150 years of pharmaceutical chemistry at the University of Königsberg , 1928

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Erwin Willmann (Ed.): Directory of the old Rudolstädter Corps students. (AH. List of the RSC.) , 1928 edition, No. 2981
personal data
SURNAME Matthes, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German food chemist
DATE OF BIRTH June 30, 1869
PLACE OF BIRTH Eisenach
DATE OF DEATH March 10, 1931
Place of death Königsberg (Prussia)