Famous People with Name Michaelis

Leonor Michaelis            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Leonor Michaelis: was a German biochemist and physician famous for his work with Maud Menten in enzyme kinetics and Michaelis-Menten kinetics.he studied medicine in Freiburg, where he graduated in 1897. He then moved to Berlin, where he received his doctorate the same year. Michaelis worked as assistant to Paul Ehrlich (1898–1899), Moritz Litten (1899–1902) and Ernst Viktor von Leyden (1902–1906). In 1906 he started as director of the bacteriology lab in Berlins Charité hospital, becoming Professor extraordinary at Berlin University in 1908.In 1914 he published a paper suggesting that Emil Abderhalden's notorious pregnancy tests could not be reproduced, a paper which fatally compromised Michaelis' position as an academic in Germany (L. Michaelis, L von Lagermark, Deutsche Med. Wochenschr. 1914, 7, 316-319). In 1922 he moved to the Medical School of the University of Nagoya (Japan) as Professor of biochemistry

August Michaelis            Origin/Culture/Country: German

August Michaelis: was a German chemist and discovered the Michaelis-Arbuzov reaction.Michaelis studied at the University of Göttingen and University of Jena and became professor for chemistry at University of Karlsruhe in 1876, at the University of Aachen in 1880, and at the University of Rostock in 1890.

Liane Michaelis            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Liane Michaelis: is a former East German handball player who competed in the 1976 Summer Olympics.

Adolf Michaelis            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Adolf Michaelis: was a German classical scholar, a professor of art history at the University of Strasbourg from 1872, who helped establish the connoisseurship of Ancient Greek sculpture and Roman sculpture on their modern footing. Just at the cusp of the introduction of photography as a tool of art history, Michaelis pioneered in supplementing his descriptions with sketches. Michaelis read classical philology and archaeology at the University of Leipzig, where he attended the classes of Johannes Overbeck (1826–1895), an expert on Pompeii whose emphasis on written sources for documenting Greek art was influential in formulating Michaelis' approach to antiquities and whose corpus of mythological representations in Greek art, Griechische Kunstmythologie, begun in 1871, helped spark Michaelis' own compilation of antiquities in English collections.

Dr. Herbert Michaelis            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Dr. Herbert Michaelis: was a German lawyer and Communist and a member of the German Resistance during the Third Reich.He joined the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) in 1924. In 1933, the year the National Socialists seized power, someone anonymously denounced him to the Gestapo