History of biochemistry
The history of biochemistry can be said to have started with the ancient Greeks who were interested in the composition and processes of life, although biochemistry as a specific scientific discipline has its beginning around the early 19th century. Some argued that the beginning of biochemistry may have been the discovery of the first enzyme, diastase (today called amylase), in 1833 by Anselme Payen, while others considered Eduard Buchner's first demonstration of a complex biochemical process alcoholic fermentation in cell-free extracts to be the birth of biochemistry. Some might also point to the influential work of Justus von Liebig from 1842, "Animal chemistry, or, Organic chemistry in its applications to physiology and pathology", which presented a chemical theory of metabolism, or even earlier to the 18th century studies on fermentation and respiration by Antoine Lavoisier.
Biological Chemistry (journal)
The journal was established by Felix Hoppe-Seyler in 1877, under the name "Zeitschrift für Physiologische Chemie" (English: "Journal of Physiological Chemistry"), and was edited by him until his death in 1895. The journal was subsequently renamed " Hoppe-Seyler's Zeitschrift für Physiologische Chemie" in 1896. Following Hoppe-Seyler, the journal was edited by his student and collaborator, the German biochemist and Nobel laureate Albrecht Kossel, until his death in 1927. In 1985 the journal was renamed as "Biological Chemistry Hoppe-Seyler", before obtaining its current title in 1996.