Emil_Christian_Hansen

Emil Christian Hansen

Emil Christian Hansen

Danish mycologist

For other people named Christian Hansen, see Christian Hansen (disambiguation). For the artist born Emil Hansen, see Emil Nolde.

Emil Christian Hansen (8 May 1842 – 27 August 1909) was a Danish mycologist and fermentation physiologist.

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Hansen in his lab.

Hansen was born in Ribe to Joseph Christian Hansen, a house-painter, and his wife Ane Catherina Dyhre.[1]

He was awarded a gold medal in 1876 for an essay on fungi, titled De danske Gjødningssvampe.[2] During his days as a university student in Copenhagen, he worked as an unpaid assistant to zoologist Japetus Steenstrup (1813–1897). In 1876, with Alfred Jørgensen (1848–1925), he published a Danish translation of Charles Darwin’s "The Voyage of the Beagle"; Rejse om Jorden. From 1879 to 1909, he was director of the physiological department at Carlsberg Laboratory.[3]

Hired by the Carlsberg Laboratory in Copenhagen in 1879,[4] he became the first to isolate a pure cell of yeast in 1883, and after combining it with a sugary solution, produced more yeast than was in a yeast bank. It was named as Saccharomyces carlsbergensis after the laboratory, and is the yeast from which are derived, all yeasts used in lager beers.[5] See Fermentation, Yeast.

Hansen is the taxonomic authority of the fungal genus Anixiopsis (1897) from the family Onygenaceae.[6]

He was honoured in 1911, when botanist H. Zikes published Hanseniaspora, which is a genus of yeasts.[7]

Publications by Hansen that have been translated into English

The standard author abbreviation E.C.Hansen is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.[9]

Literature

  • Claussen, Niels Hjelte Emil Christian Hansen, pp. 161–164 in: Meisen, V. Prominent Danish Scientists through the Ages. University Library of Copenhagen 450th Anniversary. Levin & Munksgaard, Copenhagen (1932)
  • Beer in Health and Disease Prevention edited by Victor R. Preedy

References

  1. [1]
    Klöcker, Albert (1976) [Written in 1910]. "Emil Christian Hansen 1842-1909". In Holter, H.; Moller, K. Max (eds.). The Carlsberg Laboratory, 1876/1976. Copenhagen: The Carlsberg Foundation. pp. 168–189.
  2. [2]
    Encyclopedia.com (biography)
  3. [3]
    Darwinarkivet (biographical information)
  4. [4]
    www.germanbeerinstitute.com Archived 2015-09-24 at the Wayback Machine
  5. [5]
    Olesen, K; Felding, T; Gjermansen, C; Hansen, J (2002). "The dynamics of the Saccharomyces carlsbergensis brewing yeast transcriptome during a production-scale lager beer fermentation". FEMS Yeast Res. 2 (4): 563–73. doi:10.1016/s1567-1356(02)00155-1. PMID 12702272.
  6. [6]
    Encyclopedia of Life Anixiopsis
  7. [7]
    "Hanseniaspora Zikes, 1911". www.gbif.org. Retrieved 26 March 2022.
  8. [8]
    WorldCat Search (publications)
  9. [9]
    International Plant Names Index.  E.C.Hansen.


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