Gustav Embden

Gustav Georg Embden ( born November 10, 1874 in Hamburg, † July 25, 1933 in Nassau ) was a German physician ( physiologist and biochemist ). He was a son of the lawyer George Henry Embden and thus a great-nephew of Heinrich Heine.

Embden studied in Freiburg, Strasbourg, Munich, Berlin and Zurich; In 1899 he received his doctorate in Strasbourg for Dr. med. After an assistant professor in Strasbourg, he became in 1904 director of the chemical laboratory at the Municipal Hospital in Frankfurt- Sachsenhausen. For this laboratory was written in 1914, the Institute of Vegetative Physiology of the newly founded University of Frankfurt since taught at the Embden as a professor and 1925/26, held the office of rector. In 1925 he became a member of the Leopoldina.

He worked mainly on carbohydrates and muscle metabolism. His work has been fundamental to the description of diabetes mellitus.

In 1929, the mechanism of glycolysis has been elucidated ( Embden - Meyerhof pathway ) by Gustav Embden, Otto Meyerhof and Jakub Parnas.

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