Issue in Honor of Prof. Karsten Krohn ARKIVOC 2004 (xiii) 1-4
Professor Karsten Krohn A Tribute
This special issue of Arkivoc is to celebrate the 60th birthday of Karsten Krohn (20. April 1944)
Karsten Krohn was born in Hademarschen, situated in the northern province of Schleswig- Holstein, Germany, where he also received his basic education. He signed up as a student at the University of Kiel in 1963 and graduated from that university in 1968. Here, he also obtained his PhD in 1971 under the supervision of Prof. A. Mondon with a thesis on the isolation and synthesis of alkaloids (Narciclasin 1) from daffodils.1 In the following three years he spent his postdoctoral time first with Prof. Mondon and then with Prof. Winterfeldt at the University of Hannover on a Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) stipend where he worked on the synthesis of Camptothecin 2.2 He then moved to the University of Hamburg where his independent scientific work started. He began his work on quinone antibiotics (in particular the anthracyclines) and achieved his habilitation in 1979. Subsequently, in 1981 he was nominated associate professor at the Technical University of Braunschweig. In 1991 he was offered the chair in organic chemistry as successor to Wolfgang Sucrow at the University of Paderborn. After appointment as a full professor, he moved there and has since guided a very large and lively group. In addition, in 1984 he was the Margaret L. and Harlan L. Goering Visiting Professor in Organic Chemistry at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA; in 1996 he was a visiting professor in Nancy, France and in 2001, he was a visiting professor at the University of Santo Tomas, Manila, Philippines. He received numerous awards, most notably the Karl- Winnacker prize in 1982. He was named a honorary member of the Hungarian Humboldt Society and in 2004 a fellow of the "Japan Society for the Promotion of Science". He serves on the
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