Ivan Horbachevsky

Ivan Yakovych Horbachevsky (Ukrainian: Іван Якович Горбачевський, Ivan Jakovyč Horbačevskyj; 5 May 1854, Zarubińce – 24 May 1942, Prague) also known as Jan Horbaczewski, Johann Horbaczewski or Ivan Horbaczewski, was an eminent Austrian chemist and politician of Ukrainian origin.

Ivan Horbachevsky
Born(1854-05-05)5 May 1854
Zarubyntsi, Galicia-Lodomeria, Austrian Empire
(now Ukraine)
Died24 May 1942(1942-05-24) (aged 88)
Prague, Protectorate Bohemia and Moravia
(now Czech Republic)
NationalityAustria-Hungary, Czechoslovakia
Alma materUniversity of Vienna
Scientific career
FieldsBiochemistry
InstitutionsCharles University of Prague
Ukrainian Free University

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
  1. Hitchings, G. H. (1978), Kelley, William N.; Weiner, Irwin M. (eds.), "Uric Acid: Chemistry and Synthesis", Uric Acid, Handbook of Experimental Pharmacology, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 51, pp. 1–20, doi:10.1007/978-3-642-66867-8_1, ISBN 978-3-642-66869-2
  2. Horbaczewski, Johann (July 1882). "Synthese der Harnsäure". Berichte der Deutschen Chemischen Gesellschaft (in German). 15 (2): 2678. doi:10.1002/cber.188201502236.
  3. Salfellner, Harald (2018). The Spanish Flu. A Story of the 1918 Pandemic. Praha: Vitalis. p. 75. ISBN 978-3-89919-511-8.
  • 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.
Ivan Horbaczewski Commemorative Plaque in Vienna


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