Otto Hoffmann-Ostenhof

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Otto Hoffmann-Ostenhof (born October 18, 1914 in Vienna ; † October 14, 1992 ) was an Austrian biochemist .

Life

Hoffmann-Ostenhof studied in Vienna, Innsbruck and Zurich and received his doctorate under Paul Karrer with his thesis The Homologues of * -Tocopherol . From January to May 1937 he fought in the Spanish Civil War in a militia unit of the Partido Obrero de Unificación Marxista ( Militia unit Rovira ). Under National Socialist rule he was in resistance and in prison (a people's court convicted him in 1943 for undermining military strength). In 1945 he became an assistant at the University of Vienna , completed his habilitation in 1950, was titular professor from 1959 and full professor for biochemistry at the University of Vienna from 1971.

He dealt with enzyme research, including phosphoresterases and the clarification of the biosynthesis of inositol . He was also instrumental in the systematic nomenclature of enzymes.

He was married to Christel George and is the father of the journalist Georg Hoffmann-Ostenhof , the theoretical chemist Thomas Hoffmann-Ostenhof , the doctor Margit Endler (* 1951, married to Franz Endler ) and the lawyer Peter Hoffmann-Ostenhof.

Fonts

  • Enzymology, Springer 1954

literature

  • Peter Karlson : Otto Hoffmann-Ostenhof on his 70th birthday . In: Natural Sciences . tape 71 , no. 10 . Springer-Verlag, 1984, p. 491-492 , doi : 10.1007 / BF00455634 .
  • Wolfgang Meyer: The Müllendorf chalk industry from the beginning to the present . Diploma thesis at the University of Vienna. Vienna 2008, p. 65 and 70–72 ( PDF file; 7.64 MB [accessed on February 6, 2016] with a detailed résumé of Otto Hoffmann-Ostenhof).
  • Winfried R. Pötsch (lead), Annelore Fischer, Wolfgang Müller: Lexicon of important chemists , Harri Deutsch 1989, p. 207

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Life data, publications and academic family tree of Otto Hoffmann-Ostenhof at academictree.org, accessed on February 12, 2018.
  2. ↑ Karl Heinz Tragl, Chronik der Wiener Krankenanstalten, Böhlau 2007, p. 356, Google Books
personal data
SURNAME Hoffmann-Ostenhof, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian biochemist
DATE OF BIRTH October 18, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH October 14, 1992