Josef Schormüller

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Josef Schormüller (born July 7, 1903 in Olching , † November 6, 1974 in Berlin ) was a German food chemist . He worked for a long time as a professor at the TU Berlin , where he founded the Institute for Food Chemistry and, in addition to numerous individual publications, has published textbooks and the Handbook of Food Chemistry .

Life

Schormüller attended the Theresien-Gymnasium in Munich and then studied chemistry at what was then the Technical University of Munich . After graduating as a graduate engineer, he received his doctorate in 1929 under W. Manchot at the TH Munich with a thesis on inorganic chemistry. His teachers included the chemist Hans Fischer and the food chemist Benno Bleyer .

In 1933 he passed the state examination for food chemists. From 1934 he worked in the food chemistry department, then in the biochemistry department of the Reich Health Office in Berlin. In 1942 he completed his habilitation at the University of Munich with a thesis on B vitamins. After the end of the Second World War he returned to his old job, which was now called the Institute for General Hygiene . Since 1947 he worked as a lecturer at the TU Berlin, in 1952 he was appointed to the newly established chair for food chemistry and food technology at the TU Berlin . On his initiative, the first building of this institute was built in Berlin's Müller-Breslau-Strasse.

Schormüller has mainly dealt scientifically with enzymatic changes in food; He analyzed the biochemistry of cheese ripening in 25 papers . In total, he has published over 200 works. In addition, he was co-editor of the magazine for food research and research , the magazine food and editor of the series Fundamentals and Advances in Food Research . Furthermore, he was the overall editor of the new edition of the nine-volume handbook of food chemistry (Springer-Verlag).

Both Hans-Dieter Belitz and Werner Grosch , the authors of today's most important textbook on food chemistry, were his students. The Society of German Chemists today awards a Josef Schormüller scholarship from the Josef Schormüller Memorial Foundation for “younger, professionally successful food chemists”. Reiner Wittkowski and Monika Pischetsrieder are members of the foundation's board of directors . Schormüller had been a member of the Leopoldina since 1965 . Schormüller received the Joseph König commemorative coin from the Society of German Chemists in 1963 .

Schormüller died on November 6, 1974 and was buried in Munich-Pasing .

Publications (selection)

  • Textbook of food chemistry: with 165 tab. , 2nd, completely reworked. Edition, Berlin, Heidelberg, New York: Springer 1974 (first edition 1961), ISBN 978-3-642-65779-5 .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ GDCh: Josef Schormüller grant
  2. ↑ Tomb at the Pasing cemetery , grave field 11 ( location )
personal data
SURNAME Schormüller, Josef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German chemist and food chemist
DATE OF BIRTH July 7, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Olching
DATE OF DEATH November 6, 1974
Place of death Berlin