Friedrich Stolz
Friedrich Stolz ( born April 6, 1860 in Heilbronn, † April 2, 1936 in Frankfurt-Hoechst ) was a German chemist who worked for 40 years for Hoechst and most recently directed the central laboratory. He is the inventor of the painkiller aminophenazone ( Pyramidon ®, 1897). The chemical synthesis of adrenaline ( as a racemate ) was achieved for the first time in 1904 Frederick pride the artificial production of a hormone.
Life
He was the son of the Heilbronn chemist and later Ebersbacher pharmacist Friedrich Conrad Stolz ( 1825-1886 ). He attended elementary school in Eberbach and then the Progymnasium in Schwäbisch Hall. Then he studied pharmacy in Munich and took a second degree in chemistry with Adolf von Baeyer, whose assistant he was and despite temporarily prevailing emigration plans and different career aspirations of his parents for the time being remained.
In 1890, he accepted an offer of employment as laboratory technicians in the laboratory of Hoechst in Frankfurt am Main. There continued to develop an antipyretic analgesic, which did not have the side effects of antipyrine recently discovered by Ludwig Knorr. Until 1893 developed the pride Pyramidon called aminophenazone, which was patented by a longer test phase in 1897 and large global distribution found.
He was head of the scientific laboratories of Hoechst and devoted himself thereafter the development of artificial hormones. Inspired by the first time in 1901 Jokichi Takamine and Thomas Aldrich successful production of adrenaline from animal kidneys succeeded pride 1904 for the first time the synthesis of the hormone, which he presented at the meeting of natural scientists in Stuttgart in 1906 and 1910 substantiated with proof of identity of natural and synthetic hormone. Pride ' synthetic adrenaline was known as epinephrine.
His other research had the Salvarsanchemie, Novocain, Nirvanol and ephedrine the subject, he was involved in about 50 patents of the Hoechst works. For his life's work, he was appointed the occasion of his 40 - year service anniversary with Hoechst honorary doctorate from the University of Marburg in 1930.
He was married in 1900 with the law daughter Helene Kerler ( 1877-1961 ). The couple had two daughters. Pride is described as a meticulous worker, but also as taciturn and sarcastic Schwabe, whose only passion was cycling next to his profession.
1957, a tanker of the Hoechst group was named after him, as well as a plaque at the Robert -Mayer -Gymnasium in Heilbronn was appropriate for him. His tomb is located at the cemetery in Frankfurt- Höchst ( Won 3 V 32).