Ludwig Narcissus

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Ludwig Wendelin Oskar Narziss (born September 30, 1925 in Munich ) is a German brewing scientist . He is the author of standard works on brewing and an internationally recognized mentor in the field.

Life

Narcissus comes from a brewery-affine family, his father was a director at Hacker-Bräu in Munich and later at Lederer Bräu in Nuremberg. Instead of doing a commercial apprenticeship as his father wanted, he began his professional training with an apprenticeship as a brewer at Tucher Bräu .

He then studied brewing at the Technical University of Munich in Weihenstephan . He then worked for several years as a research assistant and business consultant for the Bavarian State Trade Institute in Nuremberg and the Weihenstephan State Testing Institute. In 1956 he received his doctorate on the influence of yeast on the properties of beer . From 1958 to 1964 he was the first master brewer at Munich Löwenbräu AG .

On April 1, 1964, he was appointed to the chair for technology at Brewery I at the Weihenstephan University as the successor to Karl Schuster . At the same time he took over the management of the Bavarian teaching and experimental brewery . In 1992 he retired.

On September 13, 2019, the Technical University of Munich awarded him an honorary doctorate (Dr. Ing.), "In recognition of his outstanding scientific pioneering achievements, which have set international research standards in the field of brewing and beverage technology and for his trend-setting textbooks and monographs on brewing technology" . eh).

Awards

Ludwig Narziss Prize for Brewing Science

The Ludwig-Narziss-Prize for Brewing Science has been awarded annually since 2015 for scientific publication in the specialist journal BrewingScience with the greatest relevance for brewing practice.

Award winners
  • 2015: Adrian Forster and Andreas Gahr, Hopfenveredlung St. Johann GmbH
  • 2016: Fritz Jacob and Mathias Hutzler, Weihenstephan Research Center (BLQ),
  • 2017: Philip C. Wietstock, Thomas Kunz and Frank-Jürgen Methner for Influence of Hopping Technology on Oxidative Stability and Staling-Related Carbonyls in Pale Lager Beer Technical University Berlin, Institute for Biotechnology, Department of Brewing
  • 2018 Mathias Hutzler, Andreas Brandl, Fritz Jacob, Paula Goderbauer and Robert Riedl for their work on Bavarian Wheat Beer, an Example of a Special Microbe Habitat - Cultivation, Detection, Biofilm Formation, Characterization of Selected Lactic Acid Bacteria Hygiene Indicators and Spoilers

Works

  • Demolition of the brewery , Wiley-VCH Verlag, 7th edition, 2004, ISBN 978-3527310357
  • Ludwig Narziss, Werner Back: Die Bierbrauerei , Volume 1: The technology of malt preparation , Wiley-VCH Verlag, 8th edition, 2012, ISBN 978-3527325320
  • Ludwig Narziss, Werner Back: The beer brewery , Volume 2: The technology of wort preparation , Wiley-VCH Verlag, 8th edition, 2009, ISBN 978-3527325337
  • numerous articles in the magazines Brauwelt , Brauindustrie , and other specialist magazines for brewing
  • numerous doctoral theses and habilitations as a supervisor

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Makes more different beers again , sueddeutsche.de
  2. ↑ TUM honors outstanding personalities. Retrieved September 18, 2019 .
  3. ↑ 500 years of the Purity Law , at bamberger-maelzerei.de, accessed on May 24, 2018
  4. ↑ Freising honors a great personality. Retrieved August 9, 2018 .
  5. ↑ Prime Minister Dr. Markus Söder awards Bavarian Order of Merit. Retrieved July 24, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Ludwig Narziss Prize for Brewing Science , drinktec.com, accessed on September 19, 2019
  7. ↑ The 3rd Ludwig Narziss Prize in 2017 went to the TU Berlin , mebak.org, accessed on September 19, 2019
  8. ↑ BrauBeviale - hello and see you next time! , gradplato.com, accessed on September 19, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Narcissus, Ludwig
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Narcissus, Ludwig Wendelin Oskar (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German brewing scientist
DATE OF BIRTH September 30, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich