Moritz Traube, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Moritz Traube

German biochemist

Date of Birth: 12-Feb-1826

Place of Birth: Racibórz, Silesian Voivodeship, Poland

Date of Death: 28-Jun-1894

Profession: chemist, biochemist

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Moritz Traube (12 February 1826 in Ratibor, Province of Silesia, Prussia (now Racibórz, Poland) – 28 June 1894 in Berlin, German Empire) was a German chemist (physiological chemistry) and universal private scholar. Traube worked on chemical, biochemical, medical, physiological, pathophysiological problems.
He was engaged in hygienics, physical chemistry and basic chemical research.
Although he was never a staff member of a university and earned his living as a wine merchant, he was able to refute theories of his leading contemporaries, including Justus von Liebig, Louis Pasteur, Felix Hoppe-Seyler and Julius Sachs, and to develop significant theories of his own with solid experimental foundations.
The chemistry of oxygen and its significance to the organism were the central objects of his research and provided the common thread uniting almost all of his scientific activity. Moritz Traube was a younger brother of the famous Berlin physician Ludwig Traube (physician), the co-founder of the German experimental pathology.
A son, Wilhelm Traube, evolved a process of purine synthesis.
Hermann Traube, another son, was a mineralogist.