Konrad Lang (chemist)

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Konrad Lang (born August 15, 1898 in Bruchsal , † October 6, 1985 in Bad Krozingen ) was a German biochemist and physician .

Life

A native of Bruchsal Konrad Lang turned to the High School to the study of medicine , science and chemistry at the University of Freiburg to. His teachers included Heinrich Otto Wieland and Ludwig Gattermann in chemistry, and Hans Eppinger junior and Ludwig Aschoff in medicine . After receiving his doctorate in 1923 as Dr. rer. nat. and in 1928 Dr. med. he took up an assistant doctor position at the city ​​hospital in Kiel , and later he was appointed head of the laboratory there. In the winter semester of 1935/1936 he completed his habilitation as a private lecturer in physiological chemistry at the Friedrich Wilhelms University in Berlin . After Konrad Lang refused to join the Nazi lecturers ' association, his position in Kiel became untenable. He was employed as senior staff doctor and head of the Physiological-Chemical Institute of the Military Medical Academy in Berlin. From 1937 to 1945 he was an advisor to the Army Medical Inspector . According to KH Bäßler, due to the strict secrecy, there is almost no external evidence of this most active creative period of his life .

Lang was appointed associate professor in 1942. Like Hans-Diedrich Cremer , he took part in the mountain physiological conference in St. Johann in October 1942 , where a lecture was also given on altitude and cold tests on prisoners in the Dachau concentration camp. In 1944 he was a member of the scientific advisory board of the authorized representative for health care Karl Brandt .

Lang was no longer able to take up an appointment at the University of Posen in 1944 due to the war. In 1945 he took over the deputy chair of physiological chemistry at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg , in 1946 he moved to Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz as associate professor and institute director . The later promoted to full professor there retired in 1966 . Lang worked mainly in the field of metabolism and nutrition.

From 1947 he was editor of the biochemical journal and from 1960 of the journal for nutritional science .

Publications (selection)

  • About glycogen formation in the intestinal wall , Springer, Berlin, 1928
  • The intermediate metabolism, Springer, Berlin, Göttingen, Heidelberg, 1952
  • The physiological effects of sulphurous acid: expert opinion, Behr, Hamburg, Berlin, Düsseldorf, 1960
  • Assessment of foods with a characteristic vitamin content: Expert opinion, Behr, Hamburg, Berlin, Düsseldorf, 1964
  • Xylitol in oral and parenteral nutrition: med.-biochem. Expert opinion, Behr, Hamburg, 1974
  • Water, minerals, trace elements: an introduction for students of medicine, biology, chemistry, pharmacy and nutritional sciences; with 44 tables, Steinkopff, Darmstadt, 1975
  • Biochemistry of Nutrition, 4th, revised edition, Steinkopff, Darmstadt, 1979

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ KH Bäßler: laudation. Konrad Lang on his 85th birthday , Z. Nutritionist. 22 (1983) 145
  2. ↑ a b Ernst Klee: The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 355
  3. ^ KH Bäßler, A. Fricker: Obituary. In memoriam Konrad Lang , Z. Nutrition Science. 24 (1985) 217
personal data
SURNAME Lang, Konrad
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German biochemist and physician
DATE OF BIRTH August 15, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Bruchsal
DATE OF DEATH October 6, 1985
Place of death Bad Krozingen