Max Emil Julius Delbrück (; 16 June 1850 – 4 May 1919) was a German agricultural chemist.

Biography

Delbrück was born in

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. He studied chemistry in

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and in

Greifswald Greifswald (), officially the University and Hanseatic City of Greifswald (, Low German: ''Griepswoold'') is the fourth-largest city in the German state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania after Rostock, Schwerin and Neubrandenburg. In 2021 it surpa ...

. He was a member of the

fraternity A fraternity (; whence, "wikt:brotherhood, brotherhood") or fraternal organization is an organization, society, club (organization), club or fraternal order traditionally of men but also women associated together for various religious or secular ...

Free Corps of Cimbria. In 1872, he was made assistant at the Academy of Trades in Berlin.

Career

In 1874, he was appointed head of the newly founded experimental facility of the Spirits and Liquor Trade Association of Germany. This facility was transformed and expanded in 1882 into the Research and Educational Institute for Brewing (VLB). Delbrück was head of the Institute of Fermentation Technology within the research institute. In 1887, he was appointed instructor at the Agricultural College, and in 1899, was given a full professorship. He was founder of the Department of Machine-Aided Technologies of the VLB (1888) and partook in the conception of the degree course Brewmaster. The researches, carried out in part by Delbrück himself, in part under his guidance, resulted in technical contributions of the highest value to the fermentation industries. He was one of the editors of the ''Zeitschrift für Spiritusindustrie'' (1867), and of the ''Wochenschrift für Brauerei''. He died in

, aged 68.

Family

Delbrück came from a highly respected

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n family of intellectuals and civil servants. He was a younger brother of the historian

Hans Delbrück Hans Gottlieb Leopold Delbrück (; 11 November 1848 – 14 July 1929) was a German historian. Delbrück was one of the first modern military historians, basing his method of research on the critical examination of ancient sources, using auxiliary ...

and uncle of the Nobel laureate physicist

Max Delbrück Max Ludwig Henning Delbrück (; September 4, 1906 – March 9, 1981) was a German–American biophysicist who participated in launching the molecular biology research program in the late 1930s. He stimulated physical science, physical scientist ...

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