Theodor Sabalitschka

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Theodor Heinrich Georg Sabalitschka (born May 24, 1889 in Staffelstein , † November 24, 1971 in Berlin ) was a German pharmacist and chemist.

Life

Theodor Sabalitschka was the son of a pharmacist of the same name (1855-1940) and his wife Maria (* 1869). The paternal grandfather named Lorenz (1818–1885) was a Bavarian district administrator and married to Margaretha Wiesmann (1823–1912). The maternal grandfather named Johann Georg Zwiesler (1824–79) was married to Maria Reiter (1838–96) and owned a brewery in the Allgäu.

In 1894 Sabalitschka moved with his parents to Rosenheim , where his father had a pharmacy. There he went to elementary school and attended today's Ignaz-Günther-Gymnasium , where he passed the Abitur examination in 1908. He then did his military service and learned the profession of pharmacist from 1909 to 1911. From 1912 to 1914 he studied pharmacy in Kiel and Berlin . During the First World War , he initially served in the military. In March 1916 he was appointed to the Pharmaceutical Institute in Berlin. Here he researched the cultivation of medicinal plants for the army until the end of the war. In 1917 he received his license to practice medicine. In the following year he was promoted to Dr. phil., two years later Dr. rer. pole. PhD. From 1918 to 1925 he worked as a teaching assistant at the Pharmaceutical Institute.

In 1919 Sabalitschka married Margarethe Müller (* 1893), with whom he had no children. Three years later he completed his habilitation in 1922 at the Berlin University for Pharmaceutical Chemistry. In 1930 he received a call as associate professor. In 1936 he lost his teaching license for political reasons. This decision was changed to an indefinite leave of absence so that he was still allowed to teach doctoral students. Together with Carl Neuberg , he founded the “Biological-Chemical Research Institute” in 1937 and headed it until after the war. In 1939 he was drafted into military service. He initially served as a war administrator, then as chief pharmacist at the Institute for Military Pharmacy at the Military Medical Academy. In 1940 he was released from college.

After the end of the war, Sabalitschka took over the management of the partially destroyed Pharmaceutical Institute, where teaching began again in January 1947. The institute was located in the American , but the associated university in the Soviet zone of occupation . This led to political clashes during which Sabalitschka was attacked. After the establishment of the Free University of Berlin , he retired from service in 1949. He received offers from the Humboldt University and the University of Istanbul , which he did not follow. In 1959, as reparation, he received the title of full professor and a corresponding salary retrospectively until 1937.

Scientific work

Sabalitschka quickly dealt with the question of how structure affects the antimicrobial effect of chemical compounds. He researched in particular the preservation of food and medicines, storage protection, disinfection and sterilization. Around 1925 he established the p -oxibenzoic acid ester (nipaester) as a preservative and received patents for it at home and abroad. The products, which are sold throughout Europe, were initially manufactured by Penner from Berlin, and later by Nipa Laboratories in England. Sabalitschka, who received no salary at the university, made a living by selling the products and doing a lot of work as an expert and consultant. The sales brought the German Reich, which was striving for self-sufficiency, good currency. Sabalitschka, who rejected the National Socialists, was therefore allowed to continue research.

Sabalitschka also found that autoxidation is harmful and wrote noteworthy articles about vitamin C towards the end of the war.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Michael Engel:  Sabalitschka, Theodor Heinrich Georg. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 22, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-428-11203-2 , p. 319 ( digitized version ).
  2. ↑ Michael Engel:  Sabalitschka, Theodor Heinrich Georg. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 22, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-428-11203-2 , p. 319 f. ( Digitized version ).
  3. ↑ Michael Engel:  Sabalitschka, Theodor Heinrich Georg. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 22, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-428-11203-2 , p. 319 f. ( Digitized version ).
  4. ↑ Michael Engel:  Sabalitschka, Theodor Heinrich Georg. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 22, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-428-11203-2 , p. 319 f. ( Digitized version ).
  5. ↑ Michael Engel:  Sabalitschka, Theodor Heinrich Georg. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 22, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-428-11203-2 , p. 320 ( digitized version ).
  6. ↑ Michael Engel:  Sabalitschka, Theodor Heinrich Georg. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 22, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-428-11203-2 , p. 320 ( digitized version ).
personal data
SURNAME Sabalitschka, Theodor
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sabalitschka, Theodor Heinrich Georg (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pharmacist and chemist
DATE OF BIRTH May 24, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH Relay stone
DATE OF DEATH November 24, 1971
Place of death Berlin