Fritz Lieben

Born:	11-25-1890
Faculty:	Philosophical School
Category:	Expelled teacher

Fritz LIEBEN (born on November 25th, 1890 in Vienna as son of chemist Prof. Adolf Lieben, died on January 2nd, 1966 in Vienna) is a descendant of an important Jewish upper-class family in Vienna, that has e.g. founded the Ignaz-Lieben-Preis for young researchers in natural sciences in 1863. He studied chemistry at the University of Vienna and worked as an associate of Otto Fürth from 1919 on. In 1925 Lieben became Pd. (ao. Prof.) for Chemie (Physiologische Chemie) at the Philosophical School of the University of Vienna. In 1929 he followed Fürth to the department of Medical Chemistry. He was persecuted in times of Nazism as a Jew lost his position and was thrown out of the university on March 21st, 1938. Fritz Lieben excaped to France in March 1940, where he was arrested for almost a year in internment camps. In May 1941 he emigrated to New York/USA, where he worked as a lecturer in biochemistry at the John Hopkins University in Baltimore and as Rockefeller research fellow at the Mount Sinai Hospital in New York. He returned to Austria in 1953 and worked as a guest scientist at the Department of Medical Chemistry of the University of Vienna.

Lit.: ARIAS, Fritz Lieben, in: ARIAS 2008; DEICHMANN 2001, 120; Evi FUKS, Gabriele KOHLBAUER-FRITZ, Die Liebens. 150 Jahre Geschichte einer Wiener Familie, Wien 2004.

Katharina Kniefacz