Karl Spiro

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Karl Spiro (born June 24, 1867 in Berlin , † March 21, 1932 in Wimmenau near Strasbourg ) was a German biochemist and physical chemist .

Karl Spiro studied chemistry in Berlin , Greifswald and Würzburg , where he in 1889 to Dr. phil. received his doctorate . During his studies he became a member of the Greifswald Student Song Board in the Sondershäuser Association . He devoted himself to the study of medicine in Breslau , Berlin , Strasbourg and Leipzig , which he in 1893 with the graduation to the Dr. med. completed. After a short period in industry and as an assistant to Oswald Schmiedeberg , he worked with Franz Hofmeister in Strasbourg for almost 25 years . After Alsace became French after the First World War , he moved to Basel in 1919 , where he was Professor of Physical Chemistry from 1921 until his death, succeeding Gustav von Bunge .

Spiro worked in the field of physical chemistry and colloid chemistry. His developments led to the production of aminophenazone (pyramidon).

He was also the editor of the annual animal physiology report and provided important insights into animal mineral metabolism. In 1925 he became a member of the Leopoldina .

Spiro died unexpectedly of a heart attack , leaving behind his two sons and his wife. His brother was the classical philologist Friedrich Spiro .

Fonts

  • Contributions to the knowledge of the oxaloacetate . Becker's Universitätsbuchdruckerei, Würzburg 1889, also: Würzburg, Phil. Fac., Diss., 1889
  • About the inflammatory properties of cinnamic acid . Med. Inaugural Diss. 1893.
  • About physical and physiological selection . Habilitation thesis 1897; Reprint: JF Bergmann, Munich 1929
  • with Leopold Lichtwitz and Raphael Eduard Liesegang (eds.): Medical Colloid Theory . Publisher Theodor Steinkopff, Dresden and Leipzig 1934
  • Goethe and biology (lecture) . In: Swiss medical weekly . No. 12, 1932, p. 273.

literature

  • Leon Asher: Karl Spiro † . In: Clinical weekly . Volume 11, No. 16, April 16, 1932, pp. 702–703.
  • Franz Leuthardt: Karl Spiro † . In: Colloid Journal . Volume 59, June 1932, No. 3, pp. 257–263 (with portrait photo and catalog raisonné)
  • HTF: Obituary Notice: Karl Spiro (1867–1932) . In: Biochemical Journal . 27, No. 1, 1933, pp. 1-2. PMC 1252832 (free full text).
  • Marta Fischer: Lively connections. Biobibliographical lexicon of the biochemists between Germany and Russia in the 19th century. Shaker, Aachen 2013, pp. 178–180 ( full text ).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Otto Grübel, Special Houses Association of German Student Choral Societies (SV): Cartel address book. As of March 1, 1914. Munich 1914, p. 37.
  2. ^ List of members Leopoldina, Karl Spiro
personal data
SURNAME Spiro, Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Spiro, Carl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German biochemist and physical chemist
DATE OF BIRTH June 24, 1867
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH March 21, 1932
Place of death Wimmenau near Strasbourg