Marceli Nencki

Marcel Nencki ( born January 15, 1847 in Boczki, Province Kalisz, † October 14, 1901 in Saint Petersburg ) was a physician and chemist.

He studied philosophy in Krakow, Jena and Berlin. As of 1867, he went on to study medicine in Berlin. The physiological chemistry at Naunyn, Schultzen and Bayer has always been his favorite study. In 1870 he received his doctorate with the oxidation of aromatic compounds in the animal body.

In 1872 he was in Bern assistant of Chemistry at the Pathological Institute and habilitated there at the same time as a lecturer of physiological chemistry. He soon became a full professor and head of the Institute of Medicinal Chemistry.

In 1891 he went to St. Petersburg as head of the company founded by the Prince of Oldenburg bacteriological institute.

Publications

• About the Harnfarbstoffe from the indigo group and the Pancreasverdauung; Ib. 1874
• For knowledge d decay processes; Ib. 1877
• For knowledge of Leucine; Journ. f prakt Chemistry, 1877
• About the chem. Mechanism of putrefaction; Ib. XVII
• As to the viability of the fission fungi in the absence of oxygen; Ib. XIX
• Oxidation of aromatic hydrocarbons in the animal body; Zeitschr. f physiol. Chem, 1880
• Concerning the decomposition of gelatin and of the protein in the putrefaction of Pancreas; Bern, 1876
• Contributions to the biology of the fission fungi; Leipzig, 1880
• Urorozeina nowoznaleziony barwnik wmoczu ( The Urorosein, a newly discovered Harnfarbstoff ); Grazeta Lekarska, 1882
• About a new method that physiol. To measure oxidation and on the influence of poisons and diseases in the same; Pflueger 's Archiv, XXXI
• Marceli N. opera omnia; Braunschweig, 1904, two anthologies