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Emil Christian Hansen

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Emil Christian Hansen
Emil Christian Hansen
Born8 May 1842 (1842-05-08)
Died27 August 1909 (1909-08-28) (aged 67)
NationalityDanish
Known forSaccharomyces carlsbergensis
Scientific career
FieldsMycology
InstitutionsCarlsberg Laboratory
Author abbrev. (botany)E.C.Hansen
Hansen in his lab.

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

Early life and education

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

Between 1874 and 1875 he edited and distributed an mycological exsiccata work, namely Fungorum fimicolorum exempl. exsiccati, with 350 numbered specimen units.[2] He was awarded a gold medal in 1876 for an essay on fungi, titled De danske Gjødningssvampe.[3] During his days as a university student in Copenhagen, he worked as an unpaid assistant to zoologist Japetus Steenstrup (1813–1897).

Career

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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.[4]

Hired by the Carlsberg Laboratory in Copenhagen in 1879,[5] 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.[6] See Fermentation, Yeast.

Hansen is the taxonomic authority of the fungal genus Anixiopsis (1897) from the family Onygenaceae.[7]

He was honoured in 1911, when botanist H. Zikes published Hanseniaspora, which is a genus of yeasts.[8]

Publications by Hansen that have been translated into English

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Literature

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  • 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

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  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. ^ "Fungorum fimicolorum exempl. exsiccati: IndExs ExsiccataID=1871843967". IndExs – Index of Exsiccatae. Botanische Staatssammlung München. Retrieved 4 August 2024.
  3. ^ Encyclopedia.com (biography)
  4. ^ Darwinarkivet (biographical information)
  5. ^ www.germanbeerinstitute.com Archived 2015-09-24 at the Wayback Machine
  6. ^ 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.
  7. ^ Encyclopedia of Life Anixiopsis
  8. ^ "Hanseniaspora Zikes, 1911". www.gbif.org. Retrieved 26 March 2022.
  9. ^ WorldCat Search (publications)
  10. ^ International Plant Names Index.  E.C.Hansen.