Background
Hermann Pauly was born in Deutz (now part of Cologne) on 18 July 1870. His father was Friedrich Hermann Pauly, a mine director, and his mother was Henriette Wintgens (or Wittgens).
Hermann Pauly was born in Deutz (now part of Cologne) on 18 July 1870. His father was Friedrich Hermann Pauly, a mine director, and his mother was Henriette Wintgens (or Wittgens).
He graduated from the Adolfinum Moers Hermann secondary school, then studied natural sciences at the University of Giessen in Hesse, Leipzig University and the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms University of Bonn. He studied chemistry under Richard Anschütz in Bonn, and gained a Doctor of Philosophy in 1894.
He is known for the Pauly reaction, a chemical test used for detecting the presence of tyrosine or histidine in proteins. Pauly worked for a short period at Schering AG in Berlin, then became a research assistant to Hermann Emil Fischer at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität. He then became a teaching assistant to Rudolf Nietzki at the University of Basel.
He returned to Bonn, where he qualified as a professor in 1901.
In 1904, he joined Albrecht Kossel at Heidelberg University. Pauly studied for his habilitation at the University of Würzburg, and was appointed an assistant professor in 1909.
In 1912 he joined a private laboratory. In 1918 he was appointed a full Professor at Würzburg.
Hermann Pauly was awarded an honorary doctorate in medicine in 1932.
He died in Würzburg on 31 October 1950.
He became a member of the Corps Teutonia Bonn in 1890. Pauly became a member of the Corpsschleifenträger der Lusatia Leipzig in 1922.
