Theodor Paul

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Theodor Paul (born February 13, 1862 in Lorenzkirch near Strehla , † September 30, 1928 in Munich ) was a German chemist and pharmacist .

Life

After attending school in Dresden, Theodor Paul trained as a pharmacist's assistant, then studied pharmacy at the University of Leipzig from 1888 , where he received his license to practice medicine in 1889. He then changed his subject and in 1891, with a thesis on chemistry supervised by Ernst Otto Beckmann , he was awarded the title of Dr. phil. PhD. He became a research assistant at the University of Leipzig and in 1894 defended his habilitation thesis on a physico-chemical topic that had been prepared by Wilhelm Ostwald and became a private lecturer. In 1895 he acquired the certificate as a state-certified food chemist . He also studied medicine and graduated in 1901 with a doctorate. In 1898 he became an associate professor for analytical and pharmaceutical chemistry at the University of Tübingen . In 1902 he took over the position of director of the natural science department of the Imperial Health Department in Berlin. In 1905 he succeeded Albert Hilger as director of the Pharmaceutical Institute and Laboratory for Applied Chemistry at the University of Munich . After the end of the First World War he was director of the German Research Institute for Food Chemistry from 1918 to 1928 .

In his scientific work, Theodor Paul succeeded in combining the knowledge gained at the time in various research areas. A special concern of his was the application of physico-chemical knowledge to practical medicine (mode of action of disinfectants and the performance of individual disinfection methods) as well as the physical chemistry of various foods and pharmaceutical issues. He and his colleagues played a key role in the 6th edition of the German Pharmacopoeia , which appeared in 1926.

In 1918 he was elected an extraordinary member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences . He was a full member since 1921. Shortly before his death, in June 1928, he received an honorary doctorate from the Dresden University of Technology in recognition of his services as a successful researcher and promoter in the fields of nutritional sciences and medicinal-pharmaceutical chemistry .

literature

  • O. Hönigschmid: Obituary for Theodor Paul . In: Yearbook of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences . 1929 ( online [PDF; accessed August 3, 2018]).
  • Frederick S. Litten: Theodor Paul - short biography. Retrieved August 2, 2018 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Theodor Paul's member's entry at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences , accessed on August 3, 2018.
  2. ↑ Honorary doctoral students of the TH / TU Dresden. In alphabetical order. University archive, TU Dresden, accessed on August 2, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Paul, Theodor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German chemist and pharmacist
DATE OF BIRTH February 13, 1862
PLACE OF BIRTH Lorenzkirch near Strehla
DATE OF DEATH September 30, 1928
Place of death Munich