Hugo Fasold

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Hugo Fasold (born March 2, 1933 in Göttingen ; † November 15, 2017 ) was a German biochemist .

Life

Hugo Fasold, son of the doctor Hugo Fasold (1896-1975) of the same name, studied at the University of Erlangen , the University of Basel and the University of Munich , the subjects chemistry and medicine . After the medical state examination in 1957, he was in 1958 in Erlangen for doctor - degree in medicine doctorate , also in 1962 in Würzburg (nat rer Dr...) For Doctor of Science. At that time he had been working as a scientific assistant at the Institute for Physiological Chemistry at the University of Würzburg since 1960 . In 1965 he completed his habilitation in Würzburg.

In 1969 he was appointed to the Institute for Biochemistry at the Goethe University in Frankfurt, where he researched and taught until his retirement. Among other things, he was Vice President and Senate President of the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main and has been the dean of his department on several occasions.

Act

Fasold's research areas were in particular the intracellular transport and the biogenesis of ribosomes . He was u. a. Author and co-author of several textbooks for biochemistry students and for many years spokesman for the Collaborative Research Center 169 “Structure and Function of Membrane Proteins”.

In a tribute to his Frankfurt institute, it was said, in addition to his scientific work: "He made decisive progress in the expansion of the Riedberg campus and was able to contribute to the realization of the Biozentrum on the Riedberg campus as a construction officer."

Among his students is Claudia Koch-Brandt .

Fonts

  • as translator: methods of biochemistry. German edition of A biologist's guide to principles and techniques of practical biochemistry. 3. Edition. Thieme, Stuttgart and New York 1991, ISBN 978-3-13-549303-9
  • Bioregulation: regulatory and control mechanisms in the cell. Quelle and Meyer, Heidelberg 1976, ISBN 978-3-494-02060-0
  • The structure of proteins. Verlag Chemie, Weinheim 1972, ISBN 978-3-527-25335-7
  • Exploring the spatial structure of proteins using chemical methods. Medical Faculty, Würzburg 1965 (habilitation thesis from July 19, 1965)
  • About the use of food in healthy and sick people: the calorific value of the stool after gastric resection and gastrectomy. Medical Faculty, Erlangen 1958 (dissertation from May 19, 1958; published at the same time in: Gastroenterologia. Volume 91, No. 2, 1959)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary notice in: Frankfurter Rundschau No. 280 of December 2, 2017, p. 44
  2. ↑ Entry about Hugo Fasold (1896-1975) on fuerthwiki.de , accessed on December 16, 2017
  3. ↑ Short biography: Prof. Dr. Dr. Hugo Fasold. On: biochem.uni-frankfurt.de , accessed on December 3, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Fasold, Hugo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German biochemist
DATE OF BIRTH March 2, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Goettingen
DATE OF DEATH 15th November 2017