Eduard Buchner (; 20 May 1860 – 13 August 1917) was a German

chemist

and expert on fermentation (sometimes called a

zymologist), awarded the 1907

Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on

fermentation.

Biography

Early years

Buchner was born in

Munich to a physician and Doctor Extraordinary of Forensic Medicine. His older brother was the bacteriologist

Hans Ernst August Buchner. In 1884, he began studies of chemistry with Adolf von Baeyer and of botany with Carl Nägeli, at the Botanic Institute in Munich. After a period working with Otto Fischer (cousin of Emil Fischer) at the University of Erlangen, Buchner was awarded a doctorate from the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München in 1888 under Theodor Curtius.

In 1909, he was transferred to the

University of Breslau (reorganised to be

University of Wrocław in 1945), and in 1911, he moved to University of Würzburg. but Buchner and Rapp considered that she was subjectively convinced of the existence of an enzyme of fermentation, and that her experimental evidence was unconvincing.

Personal life

Buchner married Lotte Stahl in 1900. At the outbreak of the

First World War, he volunteered in the

Imperial German Army and rose to the rank of Major, commanding a munition-transport unit on the

Western and then

Eastern Front. In March 1916, he returned the University of Würzburg. In April 1917, he volunteered again. On 11 August 1917, while stationed at

Focșani, Romania, he was hit by a shell fragment in the left thigh and died in a field hospital two days later. He died in the

Battle of Mărășești and is buried in the cemetery of German soldiers in Focșani.

Publications

See also

  • History of biochemistry

References

  • including the Nobel Lecture, December 11, 1907 Cell-Free Fermentation
  • (English translation of Buchner's "Alkoholische Gährung ohne Hefezellen")