Martin Schenck
Martin Adolf Friedrich Schenck (born March 4, 1876 in Siegen , † June 23, 1960 in Leipzig ) was a German biochemist and professor at the University of Leipzig .
Life
Schenck, one of four sons of the doctor Martin Schenck and his wife Johanna geb. Dressler, studied medicine at the Universities of Würzburg and Leipzig from 1896 to 1900 and chemistry at the University of Marburg from 1905 to 1907 . During his studies he became a member of the Academic Choral Society Würzburg in the Sondershäuser Association . In 1903 the doctorate to Dr. med. at the University of Würzburg , in 1907 the doctorate to Dr. phil. at the University of Marburg. From 1906 he worked as an assistant at the Pharmaceutical-Chemical Institute. In 1912 he completed his habilitation at the University of Marburg. From 1912 to 1917 he was a private lecturer in physiological chemistry (biochemistry) at the University of Marburg, and in 1917 he was appointed professor. From 1922 to 1923 he was a scheduled associate professor for physiological chemistry at the University of Veterinary Medicine in Dresden , after the transfer from 1923 to 1945 he was a scheduled associate professor for physiological chemistry at the veterinary medicine faculty of the University of Leipzig . In November 1933 he signed the German professors' confession of Adolf Hitler . He was a member of the NSDAP and was therefore dismissed in 1945.
From 1952 until his retirement in 1955 he was again professor with a full teaching position for physiological chemistry at the University of Leipzig. He was honored as the Great Scientist of the People .
Bile acids were his specialty .
His brothers were the physiologist Fritz Schenck and the botanists Heinrich Schenck and Adolf Schenck .
Fonts
- Outline of physiological chemistry for veterinarians, human physicians and biologists , Jena 1953 (8th edition Jena 1990)
Web links
- Martin Schenck in the professorial catalog of the University of Leipzig
- Slub Dresden
- Schenck, Friedrich Adolf Martin. Hessian biography. (As of June 18, 2020). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Otto Grübel, Special Houses Association of German Student Choral Societies (SV): Cartel address book. As of March 1, 1914. Munich 1914, p. 52.
- ^ Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 531.
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| SURNAME | Schenck, Martin |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Schenck, Martin Adolf Friedrich (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German biochemist and professor at the University of Leipzig |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 4, 1876 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wins |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 23, 1960 |
| Place of death | Leipzig |