Rudolf Engst
Walter Rudolf Engst (born May 8, 1920 in Crimmitschau ; † June 11, 1995 in Dresden ) was a German chemist ( food chemistry , toxicology ).
After graduating from high school in Crimmitschau in 1939, Engst completed an internship as a pharmacist in Werdau and from 1941 studied pharmacy at the University of Leipzig with the state examination in 1944. He then worked as an assistant at the university’s pharmaceutical institute and from 1947 also studied food chemistry with the state examination in 1950. In 1949, he received his doctorate . He went to the chemical investigation office of the city of Leipzig, whose head he was in 1951, and in 1956 he became director of the Institute for Food Chemistry of the Magistrate of Greater Berlin. From 1963 he headed the Institute for Foreign Substance Research and Nutritional Toxicology at the Central Institute for Nutrition of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR in Potsdam-Rehbrücke, of which he was deputy director from 1965 to 1978. From 1969 to 1985 he was honorary professor for chemical and toxicological problems in food production at the TU Dresden. In 1978 he completed his habilitation in Dresden (PhD B).
He dealt with foreign substances in food (especially from an analytical point of view) and later with the breakdown of pesticides in the metabolism, for example lindane and DDT.
Engst had been a corresponding member of the GDR Academy of Sciences since 1979.
Fonts
- with Claus Franzke: Lebensmittelinhaltsstoffe, Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 1981, 2nd edition 1990
- Editor with Ladislav Rosival: Foreign and additives in food: an introduction, Leipzig: Fachbuchverlag 1978
- with K. Rauscher, Ulrich Freimuth a . a .: Analysis of food: Introduction and instructions for the analysis of food of plant and animal origin including foreign matter and drinking water, Leipzig: Fachbuchverlag, 1972, 2nd edition 1986
- with C. Franzke, M. Kujawa: Enzymatic degradation of DDT through molds, Die Food, Volume 14, 1970, pp. 339-346
- with W. Schnaak: Residues of dithiocarbamade fungizides and their metabolites on plant foods, Residue Reviews, Volume 52, 1974, pp. 45-67
- Degradation of pesticides, its importance to the formation of residues and their evaluation, Bibliotheca Nutritio et Dieta, Volume 29, 1980, p. 11
literature
- Winfried R. Pötsch (lead), Annelore Fischer, Wolfgang Müller: Lexicon of important chemists , Harri Deutsch 1989, p. 137
- Dorit Petschel : 175 years of TU Dresden. Volume 3: The professors of the TU Dresden 1828–2003. Edited on behalf of the Society of Friends and Supporters of the TU Dresden e. V. von Reiner Pommerin , Böhlau, Cologne a. a. 2003, ISBN 3-412-02503-8 , p. 193.
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Closest, Rudolf |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Engst, Walter Rudolf |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German chemist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 8, 1920 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Crimmitschau |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 11, 1995 |
| Place of death | Dresden |