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May 08, 1842 Ribe, Region of Southern Denmark, Denmark Died on 27 Aug 1909 (aged 67)

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About Emil Christian Hansen

  • Emil Christian Hansen (8 May 1842 – 27 August 1909) was a Danish mycologist and fermentation physiologist. Born in Ribe, he financed his education by writing novels.
  • He was awarded a gold medal in 1876 for an essay on fungi, titled De danske Gjødningssvampe.
  • 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.Hired by the Carlsberg Laboratory in Copenhagen in 1879, 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.
  • See Fermentation, Yeast. Hansen is the taxonomic authority of the fungal genus Anixiopsis (1897) from the family Onygenaceae.

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