Mathias Sprinzl
Mathias Julius Johannes Sprinzl (born May 30, 1941 ; † March 11, 2016 ) was a German biochemist and university professor . His main areas of work included information transfer and the biosynthesis of proteins .
Life
Sprinzl studied chemistry at the Slovak Technical Institute in Bratislava , where he received a diploma in organic chemistry . He then completed postgraduate studies with František Šorm in Prague . He worked as a postdoctoral fellow in Vancouver with Alex Rosenthal. In 1970 he worked in Friedrich Cramer's laboratory at the Max Planck Institute for Experimental Medicine in Göttingen .
In 1979 Sprinzl was appointed to the University of Bayreuth . During his time in Bayreuth he built up the biochemistry course there and was twice vice president of the university. He published nearly 300 publications.
In 1996 he received an honorary doctorate from the Faculty of Natural Sciences at the Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice . Sprinzl had helped to set up the biochemistry department at the university from 1991.
Sprinzl was married and had children.
literature
- Analytical Methods for Major and Modified Nucleosides - HPLC, GC, MS, NMR, UV and FT-IR (1989, page XVLL f.)
Web links
- Literature by and about Mathias Sprinzl in the catalog of the German National Library
- Mathias Sprinzl is dead , March 15, 2016, Nordbayerischer Kurier
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Obituary notice in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
- ↑ Prof. Sprinzl receives an honorary doctorate , October 30, 1996, Press Office of the University of Bayreuth
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Sprinzl, Mathias |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Sprinzl, Mathias Julius Johannes (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German biochemist and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 30, 1941 |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 11, 2016 |