Oskar Baudisch

Oskar Baudisch, around 1914

Oskar Baudisch (born June 3, 1881 in Maffersdorf , Bohemia, † March 29, 1950 in La Jolla ) was a biochemist and radiation researcher.

Life

As a graduate of the State Trade School in Reichenberg in Northern Bohemia , Oskar Baudisch studied chemistry at the Technical University in Zurich and obtained his doctorate in philosophy from the University of Zurich . After completing his one year military service in the Austro-Hungarian army, he and his former chemistry teacher F. Breindl published the study " Oxidation of proteins by hydrogen peroxide " in Reichenberg and became a private assistant to Eugen Bamberger at the Technical University (Politechnikum) in Zurich. In the autumn of 1907, Oskar Baudisch moved to the University of Manchester in England . His famous work in analytical chemistry on the cupferron comes from the William Henry Perkin Laboratory. In 1911, Oskar Baudisch became Alfred Werner's assistant at the University of Zurich and completed his habilitation in chemistry, became a private lecturer and also studied medicine. At the beginning of 1914 as director of the radiation research institute in Hamburg , the First World War surprised him .

During the First World War, Oskar Baudisch was a medical officer in the fight against epidemics in the Austro-Hungarian army. In 1920 he received a call from Yale University in New Haven, USA, where he taught photochemistry for two years as a professor . To study sulfur springs , he works with Hans von Euler-Chelpin in Stockholm . In 1933 he accepted an invitation from the later US President Franklin D. Roosevelt to set up a research institute for chemistry in Saratoga Springs in La Jolla in Southern California and to lead the Oceanography Institute. During this stay in La Jolla, he was probably killed in a boat accident.

family

Oskar Baudisch was the son of the couple Josef Baudisch (1851-1924), director of the carpet weaving mill Ignaz Ginzkey in Maffersdorf near Reichenberg, and Julie, née Ginzkey. He had four siblings, his sister Josefine Baudisch, (* 1878, † June 18, 1963), administrator of the Jung Baudisch Fund for scholarships for young people in need, and Ida, who married young and died at the age of 21, and the Brother Rudolf Baudisch (1896–1940), head of the yarn department at Ignaz Ginzkey in Maffersdorf, and Wilhelm, who died before Rudolf Baudisch was born.

See also

• List of well-known Austrian emigrants from the USA

Works

• List of publications by Oskar Baudisch in: Johann Christian Poggendorff: Biographisch-literarisches hand dictionary for the history of exact sciences, 7a, 1; 7b.

literature

• Biographical lexicon for the history of the Bohemian countries, Volume I, edited by Heribert Sturm on behalf of the Collegium Carolinum , Munich 1979, pages 55 and 56.
• Announcements of the Association for Local Studies of the Jeschken.Iser-Gaues, 15, 1921, 77.
• A. Jäger: History of the localities Maffersdorf. Proschwitz and Neuwald, Reichenberg 1865.

Web links

• Literature by and about Oskar Baudisch in the catalog of the German National Library