Hans Ernst August Buchner

Hans Ernst August Buchner ( born December 16, 1850 in Munich, † April 5, 1902 ) was a German physician, bacteriologist and hygienist.

Life

Hans Buchner studied in Munich and Leipzig, and in 1874 became a doctor. He worked as a military doctor in garrison Munich and in 1880 professor at the Medical Faculty of the University of Munich and later director of its Institute of Hygiene.

He is considered the discoverer of a substance with bactericidal properties ( Alexin ) and later referred to by Paul Ehrlich as a complement.

Hans Buchner was the brother of Nobel Prize laureate Eduard Buchner. With periodic interruptions Eduard Buchner led from 1882 until the end of 1884 under the guidance of his brother Hans Buchner studies on gap mushrooms and the influence of oxygen on fermentation processes at the Botanical Institute of Carl Wilhelm von Naegeli by. In 1895 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina.

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