Josef Pallauf

Josef Pallauf (born November 28, 1939 in Neubünsch am Inn ) is a German agricultural scientist and animal feeder and emeritus professor for animal nutrition and nutritional physiology at the Justus Liebig University in Giessen .

Life

The son of a farmer Josef Pallauf studied agricultural sciences at the Technical University of Munich and graduated with a diploma in 1964. After completing his traineeship for the higher agricultural civil service in Bavaria and the animal breeding manager examination , he became a scientific assistant to Manfred Kirchgeßner in 1966 and received his doctorate in 1971 in Munich . This was followed by his habilitation after several months abroad at the Department of Biochemistry at the University of Wisconsin in Madison .

In 1975 he accepted a professorship for animal nutrition at the Justus Liebig University in Gießen and headed the institute until his retirement in 2009, rejecting calls to Munich-Weihenstephan , Stuttgart-Hohenheim and Göttingen .

Josef Pallauf is married and has four children.

Research priorities

Pallauf carried out research with a focus on nutritional physiology , animal nutrition , trace elements and enzymes as feed additives.

Prizes and awards

In 1998 Josef Pallauf received the Sprengel-Liebig-Medal of the VDLUFA and in 1999 the main prize of the Henneberg-Lehmann-Foundation of the University of Göttingen .

Publications

Josef Pallauf is the author and co-author of over 370 scientific publications.

Web links

• Josef Pallauf at the University of Giessen, Institute for Animal Nutrition and Nutritional Physiology

Individual evidence

1. ^ Scientific symposium and documentation on the occasion of the 70th birthday of Josef Pallauf, Institute for Animal Nutrition, Justus-Liebig University Gießen, 2010
2. ^ Henneberg Lehmann Prize Winners (1956–2012) (PDF), German Association of Animal Food.
3. ↑ Research on the nutrition of farm animals and humans. Giessener Allgemeine Zeitung , January 8, 2010.