Otto Hutzinger

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Otto Hutzinger (born March 14, 1933 in Vienna ; † September 22, 2012 in Bad Ischl ) was an Austrian chemist . As the editor of the Handbook of Environmental Chemistry and several specialist journals, he has helped shape the development of environmental chemistry . His scientific approach was to look at a substance and track its interactions with different environmental media.

Life

Otto Hutzinger studied chemical industry and trade at the Vienna University of Technology from 1947 to 1952 , after which he worked for the Austrian pharmaceutical company EBEWE Pharma . In 1958 Otto Hutzinger emigrated to Canada, at the University of Saskatchewan he achieved a master's degree in chemistry in 1963 and in 1965 a Ph.D. -Graduation. In 1965 he received Canadian citizenship. From 1965 to 1967 he was an NIH postdoctoral fellow in biochemistry at the University of California, Davis .

From 1967 to 1974 Otto Hutzinger worked as a scientist at the National Research Council of Canada . In 1974 he was appointed professor and director of the laboratory for environmental and toxicological chemistry at the University of Amsterdam . From 1983 until his retirement in 1998, Hutzinger held the chair for ecological chemistry and geochemistry at the University of Bayreuth .

In 1980, Otto Hutzinger founded the DIOXIN Conference, which is still held annually to this day . He also founded the international ECOINFORMA congress, which took place six times between 1989 and 2001. Today ECOINFORMA is a side event of EnviroInfo. From 1980 he was editor of the Handbook of Environmental Chemistry . In 1988 he published the journal Environmental Science and Pollution Research (UWSF) and from 1993 to the Environmental Science and Pollution Research (ESPR) out. He remained editor of both magazines until 2005. Hutzinger is the initiator of the Environmental Chemistry and Ecotoxicology Section of the Society of German Chemists, founded in November 1990, and was its first chairman until the end of 1994. In 1991 he founded the Bavarian Institute for Waste Research (today bifa Umweltinstitut GmbH) in Augsburg , of which he was scientific director from 1991 to 1996. Most recently he lived near Bad Ischl .

The ironic title of an editorial in the UWSF from 1990 was quoted a lot: God created 91 elements, man a little more than a dozen and the devil one - chlorine . In the text he spoke out against the demonization of chlorine chemistry and in favor of a “scientific and sensible approach” to its evaluation.

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  1. ↑ Dieter Lenoir, Karl-Werner Schramm: Otto Hutzinger (1933–2012) , Nachrichten aus der Chemie 2013, 61 (1), doi : 10.1002 / nadc.201390021 .
  2. ↑ Communications from the Environmental Chemistry and Ecotoxicology Section : Congratulations from the Section to Prof. Dr. Otto Hutzinger on the occasion of his 75th birthday . June 2008, ISSN  1618-3258
  3. ↑ Almut B. Heinrich: 20 years of UWSF - How it all began and how it went on . UWSF - Z Umweltchem 20 (2) 83-85, 2008, doi : 10.1065 / uwsf2008.02.233
  4. ↑ Otto Hutzinger: God created 91 elements ..., Environmental Sciences and Pollutant Research , Volume 2, No. 2, 1990, p. 61; doi : 10.1007 / BF02936893
personal data
SURNAME Hutzinger, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian chemist
DATE OF BIRTH March 14, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH 22nd September 2012
Place of death Bad Ischl