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The Era After Emil Fischer. The Carbobenzoxy Group, Max Bergmann and His Scientific Circle

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With the death of E. Fischer peptide research in Berlin came to a halt but the deep impression created worldwide by his accomplishments in chemistry remained an inspiration for several laboratories. The work of E. Abderhalden was discussed in the preceding chapter, the most important contribution to the further development of peptide chemistry came, however, from Fischer’s principal coworker Max Bergmann (1886–1944) [1]. Son of a wholesaler merchant in Fürth, Bavaria, he started his studies in 1906 at the Technical University in Munich in botany but in 1907 he transferred to chemistry and to Berlin where, in Fischer’s laboratory, he worked on his doctoral dissertation entitled “Hydrogen Persulfide” under the direction of Ignaz Bloch. After graduation in 1911 Fischer engaged him as assistant in his personal laboratory to work in the field of sugars, tannins, amino acids and peptides. In 1920, soon after Fischer’s death, he was named Privatdozent and appointed Acting Director and head of the department of Organic Chemistry of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Fiber Research in Berlin-Dahlem. In 1922 he moved to Dresden as Director of the newly founded Kaiser Wilhelm Institut for Leather research. There he broadened the area of his studies in the field of carbohydrates (including their polymers cellulose and chitin), tannins, amino acids and peptides.

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Wieland, T., Bodanszky, M. (1991). The Era After Emil Fischer. The Carbobenzoxy Group, Max Bergmann and His Scientific Circle. In: The World of Peptides. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-75850-8_3

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