BiocHEMiCAL Bulletin 



Volume II SEPTEMBER, 191 2 No. 5 



IN MEMORIAM 



ERNST SCHULZE 

 Born July 31, 1840 Died June 15, 19 12 



The death o£ Ernst Schulze is an irreparable loss to biology. 

 Wherever the biochemistry of plants is appreciated, Schulze's death 

 causes profound sorrow. Schulze was one of the founders of our 

 present exact biochemical investigation. His researches in phyto- 

 chemistry are classical and they have been charged with funda- 

 mental ideas that continue to influence research in this great field. 



Dr. Ernst Schulze, professor of agricultural chemistry in the 

 Eidgenössischen Technischen Hochschule at Zürich, was born July 

 31, 1840, in the hamlet of Bovenden, near Göttingen. In 1858 

 Schulze studied chemistry under Wöhler in Göttingen and also spent 

 a Semester with Bunsen in Heidelberg. In 1861 he was assistant 

 to Lehman, and subsequently to Geuther, at the Chemical Institute 

 in Jena. His scientific activity began at the Agricultural Experi- 

 ment Station in Weende, under the direction of Henneberg. In 

 1871 Schulze was appointed director of the newly founded Agri- 

 cultural Experiment Station in Darmstadt. Even while he was at 

 Weende, his ability had attracted the attention of the Eidgenös- 

 sischen institution. In June, 1872, he was called to Zürich, where 

 his activities continued fruit fully for forty years. 



Schulze's first important research was published with the collab- 

 oration of his friend Märcker, in 1870, in the Journal für Land- 

 zmrtschaft. In this paper it was shown that the principles of pro- 



