Ivan Horbachevsky
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Ivan Horbachevsky | |
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Born | |
Died | 24 May 1942 | (aged 88)
Nationality | Austria-Hungary, Czechoslovakia |
Alma mater | University of Vienna |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Biochemistry |
Institutions | Charles University of Prague Ukrainian Free University |
Ivan Yakovych Horbachevsky (Ukrainian: Іван Якович Горбачевський; 15 May 1854 – 24 May 1942) also known as Jan Horbaczewski, Johann Horbaczewski or Ivan Horbaczewski, was an Austrian chemist and politician of Ukrainian origin.
From 1872 to 1878 he studied medicine at the University of Vienna, Austria. In 1883 he was appointed extraordinary professor and, in 1884, ordinary professor at the University of Prague by the Emperor, and was the rector of the same university for a time. He is particularly known for his contributions in organic chemistry and biochemistry. He was the first to synthesise uric acid from glycine in 1882.[1][2] He also noticed that aminoacids were building blocks of proteins. Horbachevsky worked in Austria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Ukraine. It was as though the Dual Monarchy was responding to the Spanish flu when, on 30 July 1918, Imperial Councillor Ivan Horbachevsky was appointed by imperial decree the empire’s first health minister.[3]
References
- ^ Hitchings, G. H. (1978). "Uric Acid: Chemistry and Synthesis". In Kelley, William N.; Weiner, Irwin M. (eds.). Uric Acid. Handbook of Experimental Pharmacology. Vol. 51. Springer Berlin Heidelberg. pp. 1–20. doi:10.1007/978-3-642-66867-8_1. ISBN 978-3-642-66869-2.
- ^ Horbaczewski, Johann (July 1882). "Synthese der Harnsäure". Berichte der Deutschen Chemischen Gesellschaft (in German). 15 (2): 2678. doi:10.1002/cber.188201502236. S2CID 92323943.
- ^ Salfellner, Harald (2018). The Spanish Flu. A Story of the 1918 Pandemic. Praha: Vitalis. p. 75. ISBN 978-3-89919-511-8.
External links
- Biographie in http://portal.unesco.org/
- Выдающиеся химики мира: Биогр.справочник/В.Волков,Е.Вонский,Г.Кузнецова.-М.,1991.
- Віталій Абліцов «Галактика «Україна». Українська діаспора: видатні постаті» – К.: КИТ, 2007. - 436 с.
- 1854 births
- 1942 deaths
- People from Ternopil Oblast
- Scientists from the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria
- Politicians from the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria
- Ukrainian Austro-Hungarians
- 19th-century Ukrainian people
- 20th-century Ukrainian people
- 19th-century Austrian chemists
- 20th-century chemists
- Ukrainian chemists
- Ukrainian biochemists
- Gout researchers
- Chemists from Austria-Hungary
- Czechoslovak chemists
- Full Members of the All-Ukrainian Academy of Sciences
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