Nikolai Ivanovich Lunin

Nikolai Lunin

Nikolai Ivanovich Lunin , Russian Николай Иванович Лунин , (born February 1, 1854 in Dorpat , † June 18, 1937 in Leningrad ) was a Russian-Baltic chemist, doctor and nutritional physiologist .

Lunin studied medicine in Dorpat and then worked at the Neurology and Psychiatry Clinic of the University of Dorpat under Hermann Emminghaus . He received his doctorate in 1880 under the physiologist Gustav von Bunge in Dorpat (later professor in Basel). In his dissertation, he examined artificial foods and came to the conclusion that essential substances must be contained in natural foods that the artificial foods lacked, since mice from a diet of pure proteins (lunin gave casein ), fats, carbohydrates (in the form of Cane sugar and mineral salts (Lunin emphasized the phosphorus salts necessary for the formation of organic phosphorus compounds) did not survive (but they did after the addition of milk or egg yolk). This made him a forerunner of vitamin research . Frederick Gowland Hopkins paid tribute to him in his 1929 Nobel Lecture.

In 1882 he went to Saint Petersburg as a clinician. In 1884 he headed an outpatient clinic there and in 1919 became chief physician of the Rauchfuß hospital. In 1925 he gave up his offices.

Lunin's tomb in Saint Petersburg

He was a member of the German Medical Association and the St. Petersburg Doctors Association . In 1887 he married a German woman.

Fonts

On the importance of inorganic salts for the nutrition of animals. In: Journal of Physiological Chemistry . Vol. 5, 1881, pp. 31-39 .

literature

Winfried R. Pötsch (lead), Annelore Fischer, Wolfgang Müller: Lexicon of important chemists . Harri Deutsch, Thun et al. 1989, ISBN 3-8171-1055-3 , p. 285.

Web links

Commons : Nikolai Iwanowitsch Lunin - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ Gregorian date, according to Lexicon of Eminent Chemists, May 21 is also given, Erik Amburger database, Institute for East and Southeast European Studies , after Erik Amburger , whose family had ties to the Lunins.
^ Otto Westphal , Theodor Wieland , Heinrich Huebschmann: life regulator. Of hormones, vitamins, ferments and other active ingredients. Societäts-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1941 (= Frankfurter Bücher. Research and Life. Volume 1), p. 41 f.
^ Hopkins, The earlier history of Vitamin Research , Nobel Lecture 1929.
^ Kristin Zieger: The importance of the German medical associations for scientific life, medical care and social issues in the city of St. Petersburg from 1819-1914. 2000, p. 52 f., (Leipzig, University, dissertation, 2000; digitized version (PDF; 863.79 kB) ).

personal data
SURNAME	Lunin, Nikolai Ivanovich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Лунин, Николай Иванович (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Russian-Baltic chemist and doctor
DATE OF BIRTH	February 1, 1854
PLACE OF BIRTH	Dorpat
DATE OF DEATH	June 18, 1937
Place of death	St. Petersburg

[1] Gregorian date, according to Lexicon of Eminent Chemists, May 21 is also given, Erik Amburger database, Institute for East and Southeast European Studies , after Erik Amburger , whose family had ties to the Lunins.

[2] Otto Westphal , Theodor Wieland , Heinrich Huebschmann: life regulator. Of hormones, vitamins, ferments and other active ingredients. Societäts-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1941 (= Frankfurter Bücher. Research and Life. Volume 1), p. 41 f.

[3] Hopkins, The earlier history of Vitamin Research , Nobel Lecture 1929.

[4] Kristin Zieger: The importance of the German medical associations for scientific life, medical care and social issues in the city of St. Petersburg from 1819-1914. 2000, p. 52 f., (Leipzig, University, dissertation, 2000; digitized version (PDF; 863.79 kB) ).