Kurt Täufel

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Kurt Albert Täufel (born  December 10, 1892 in Crimmitschau , †  February 10, 1970 in Berlin ) was a German food chemist and nutritionist . He worked as a professor in Munich , Karlsruhe , Dresden and from 1951 to 1961 at the Humboldt University in Berlin , and from 1957 to 1962 was director of the Institute for Nutrition in Potsdam-Rehbrücke , a non-university research institute of the German Academy of Sciences in Berlin . In addition to Carl Arthur Scheunert , he is considered the nestor of nutritional science in the GDR .

Life

Kurt Täufel was born in Crimmitschau in 1892 as the son of a businessman and initially studied education from 1910 to 1914 at the University of Leipzig . After the First World War , he graduated from 1918 to 1921 to study chemistry and food chemistry at the University of Munich , where he in 1921 and his doctorate in 1925 with a thesis on the chemistry of natural and artificial sweeteners habilitation was. From 1929 to 1936 he was an adjunct professor and deputy head of the German Research Institute for Food Chemistry at Munich University , which had been affiliated to the university in the 1920s. In 1936 he moved to Karlsruhe , where he worked until 1940 as associate professor at the Technical University of Karlsruhe and as director of the Baden Food Research Institute . He then worked from 1940 to 1945 as a full professor of food chemistry at the Technical University of Dresden .

After the Second World War he was dismissed from university service in Dresden due to his SA membership and worked from 1945 to 1947 first in a chemical-pharmaceutical factory in Freiberg , before he worked as a research assistant at the newly founded branch of the Dahlem Institute in Potsdam-Rehbrücke Nutrition and catering science alternated. From 1948 to 1957 he acted as deputy director of the facility in Rehbrücke, which was expanded to become the Institute for Nutrition and Catering Science . In addition, from 1951 to 1961 he held a chair for food chemistry and technology at the Humboldt University in Berlin . From 1957 to 1962 he was director of the Rehbrücker Institute, which in the same year was incorporated into the research community of the German Academy of Sciences in Berlin, which later became the Academy of Sciences of the GDR . He died in Berlin in 1970 .

Awards and recognition

Kurt Täufel, along with Carl Arthur Scheunert, who also works at the Rehbrücker Institute, is one of the founders of nutritional science in the German Democratic Republic (GDR). He was accepted into the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina in 1955 and was a corresponding member of the Saxon Academy of Sciences from 1959 . In 1955 he received the Wilhelm Normann Medal from the German Society for Fat Science , for which he had temporarily acted as chairman of the specialist group “Fats as Food”. The Technical University of Dresden made him an honorary doctorate in 1957 . In 1962 he was awarded the title of Great Scientist of the People . In 1998, the Food Chemistry Society, as the specialist group of food chemists in the Society of German Chemists, named its Young Scientist Prize, which has been awarded since 1970, after Kurt Täufel.

Works (selection)

  • The importance of chemical research for food technology and for monitoring food traffic. Geneva 1927
  • Brief instructions for qualitative chemical analysis: Based on Volhard's instructions for qualitative chemical analysis. Munich 1932 (as co-author)
  • Nutritional Research and Future Food Chemistry. Berlin 1950
  • Nutrition and diet in clinics, health resorts and companies. Berlin 1960 (as co-editor)

literature

  • Taufel, Kurt (Albert). In: Hans-Michael Körner , Bruno Jahn: Large Bavarian Biographical Encyclopedia. Volume 3. Saur, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-59-811460-5 , p. 1937.
  • Rüdiger vom Bruch , Uta Gerhardt, Aleksandra Pawliczek: Continuities and discontinuities in the history of science in the 20th century. Steiner, Stuttgart 2006, ISBN 3-51-508965-9 , p. 128 and p. 243.
  • S. Walter Souci : Kurt Täufel on his 70th birthday. In: The food: chemistry, physiology, technology. 6/1962, pp. 589-595.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Honorary doctorates of the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences ( Memento of the original from January 28, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. of the TU Dresden. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / tu-dresden.de

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personal data
SURNAME Taufel, Kurt
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Täufel, Kurt Albert (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German food chemist and nutritionist
DATE OF BIRTH December 10, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH Crimmitschau
DATE OF DEATH February 10, 1970
Place of death Berlin