Stefan Goldschmidt

Stefan Goldschmidt, 1923

Stefan Goldschmidt (born March 26, 1889 in Nuremberg , † December 20, 1971 in Munich ) was a German chemist and professor.

Goldschmidt studied chemistry with Adolf von Baeyer at the LMU Munich . In 1912, he was as an academic student of Otto Dimroth with a dissertation about the degradation of laccaic (dye of floor paint) PhD . In 1913 he followed Dimroth for his habilitation at the University of Greifswald . Due to the First World War (1914–1918) he was only able to complete his habilitation on the triphenylhydrazyl radical with him in 1919 - now at the University of Würzburg .

Goldschmidt or DPPH radical

For his research on radicals - the particularly stable 2,2-diphenyl-1-pikrylhydrazyl radical is known as the "Goldschmidt radical" - he was appointed associate professor in Würzburg in 1923 . Shortly afterwards he was appointed professor and head of organic chemistry at the Technical University of Karlsruhe . In 1929 he became a full professor there. His field of work now also included the oxidative breakdown of proteins.

For racist reasons he was dismissed from the civil service in 1935 and was only able to work in private industrial laboratories in the German Reich. In 1938 he therefore emigrated to the Netherlands and became head of the NF Organon research laboratory in Oss near Nijmegen. Here he developed a new method of synthesis of vitamin C .

In 1946 Goldschmidt was offered a professorship in organic chemistry at the Technical University of Munich . He succeeded Hans Fischer in 1947. His research area here included peptide synthesis and the associated in vitro and in vivo degradation processes.

In 1932 he became an extraordinary member of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences , in 1939/1940 he was deleted from the list of members and in 1947 he was re-accepted as a corresponding member. Since 1948 he was a full member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences .

After his retirement in 1958, Friedrich Weygand succeeded his chair at the TH Munich.

literature

• Joseph Walk (ed.): Short biographies on the history of the Jews 1918–1945. Edited by the Leo Baeck Institute, Jerusalem. Saur, Munich 1988, ISBN 3-598-10477-4 .
• Biographical summary and appreciation of the TH Munich .
• Klaus Koschel and Gerhard Sauer, On the history of the Chemical Institute of the University of Würzburg, pages 89–91, self-published by the university in 1968.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Bavarian Academy of Sciences: Yearbook, page 295, Verlag der Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften in commission at CH Beck, 1972.
2. ↑ Life data, publications and academic family tree of Stephan Goldschmidt at academictree.org, accessed on February 7, 2018.
3. ^ Members of the HAdW since it was founded in 1909. Stefan Goldschmidt. Heidelberg Academy of Sciences, accessed on July 6, 2016 . 
4. ^ Stefan Goldschmidt obituary at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences (PDF file).