Karl Feist
Karl Feist , fully Eduard Richard Karl Feist, (born May 9, 1876 in Nordhausen , † February 20, 1952 in Göttingen ) was a German pharmacist and food chemist .
Life
Feist was the son of a distillery owner in Nordhausen, worked in pharmacies, at times also in the USA, and studied pharmacy and chemistry including food chemistry at the University of Marburg with Ernst Schmidt . He received his doctorate in 1901 and habilitated under Johannes Gadamer in Breslau in 1907 , became senior assistant in Marburg, head of the pharmaceutical chemistry department in Gießen from 1912 and took part in the First World War as a naval pharmacist from 1914 to 1918 . In 1919 he was appointed personal professor and successor to Carl Mannich at the University of Göttingen . There he founded an independent chemical-pharmaceutical institute. In November 1933 he signed the German professors' confession of Adolf Hitler . In 1938, his chair was canceled in the course of saving pharmaceutical chairs. Feist had also openly opposed National Socialism . It was not until 1946 that he continued teaching.
Feist's scientific merits are mainly in the fields of alkaloid chemistry and drug synthesis . So he investigated natural substances such as the barberry .
literature
- Walther Awe : Feist, Karl. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 5, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1961, ISBN 3-428-00186-9 , p. 63 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Thuringian General 2012 about Karl Feist
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Feist, Karl |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Feist, Eduard Richard Karl |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German chemist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 9, 1876 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Nordhausen |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 20, 1952 |
| Place of death | Goettingen |