Eduard Buchner

Eduard Alois Buchner was a German biochemist, chemist, university teacher, and mineralogist. He was born in Munich in 1860 and died in Focșani in 1917. Buchner held citizenship in the German Empire and participated in World War I. He was educated at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, the Technical University of Munich, and the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg. His doctoral advisor was Adolf von Baeyer.

Buchner worked at the University of Tübingen, the University of Würzburg, the University of Wrocław, and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. His work locations included Berlin, Wrocław, and Tübingen. He was a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina. He received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry and the Liebig Medal. He was also nominated for the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Buchner spoke German and was recognized in the Nobel Laureates and Nobel Chemistry collections.