Eduard buchner biography

Buchner came from an old Bavarian family of scholars. Upon graduating from the Realgymnasium in Munich, he served in the field artillery and then studied chemistry at the Technische Hochschule in Munich. After a short while, however, Buchner had to abandon his studies because of financial problems; for four years he worked in canneries in Munich and in Mombach.

In , with the assistance of his brother Hans, he was able to resume his chemical studies, this time at the organic section of the chemical laboratory of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences in Munich, under Adolf von Baeyer. Here he became interested in the problems of alcoholic fermentation, the subject of his first publication Buchner obtained his doctorate in under Baeyer and in was appointed his teaching assistant.

He became Privatdozent the following year. His Habilitationsschrift dealt with research on pyrazole, the five-membered heterocyclic derivative of antipyrine.

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Baeyer procured the funds for him to set up his own laboratory for fermentation chemistry, but up to Buchner published only one other paper on the physiology of fermentation, a comparative study of the behavior of fumaric and maleic acids. In Buchner succeeded Curtius as head of the Section for Analytical Chemistry at the University of Kiel, and in he was appointed associate professor there.

In Buchner accepted an appointment as full professor of general chemistry at the College of Agriculture in Berlin and simultaneously he became director of the Institute for the Fermentation Industry. Two sons and one daughter resulted from this marriage.