Gustav Embden

Gustav Georg Embden (10 November 1874 – 25 July 1933) was a German physiological chemist.

Background Gustav Embden was a son of the Hamburg lawyer and politician George Heinrich Embden. His grandmother Charlotte Heine was a well-known salonnière and a sister of the poet Heinrich Heine.

Education and career Embden initially studied in Freiburg, Strasbourg, Munich, Berlin, and Zurich under the famous physiologists of his time, including Johannes von Kries, Franz Hofmeister, Gaule, Paul Ehrlich, and Julius Richard Ewald. In 1904, he became the director of the chemistry laboratory of the medical clinic at the Frankfurt-Sachsenhausen municipal hospital. Embden served as the rector of the university from 1925 to 1926.

Awards Although Embden was never awarded a Nobel Prize, he was nominated 12 times over 8 years.