Alfred Wohl

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Alfred Wohl (born October 3, 1863 in Graudenz , West Prussia , † December 25, 1939 in Stockholm ) was a German chemist .

life and work

At the age of 19, Wohl began to study chemistry at the universities of Berlin and Heidelberg in 1882 . He was able to successfully complete this study in Berlin in 1886 with his dissertation on methylaldehyde and its derivatives . His doctoral supervisor was August Wilhelm von Hofmann .

In the following year Wohl got a job as an assistant at the beet sugar laboratory in Berlin; he held this post until 1889. This was followed by a few years as a private lecturer. In 1891 he returned to the laboratory in Berlin and completed his habilitation there.

In 1904 Wohl accepted a professorship at the Danzig Technical University, which was newly founded in 1904 . As such, he was entrusted with the management of the laboratory for organic chemistry . From 1913 to 1915 he was rector of the Technical University of Gdansk. The German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina accepted Wohl as a full member in 1932. In the following year he was dismissed from office by the National Socialists as politically unreliable . He was then able to work on some scientific projects, but his situation became more and more difficult over the years.

In 1938 Wohl emigrated to Stockholm and died there the following year. His son Kurt Wohl (1896–1962), who also became a well-known chemist, emigrated to Great Britain in early 1939 and finally in 1942 to the United States.

The Wohl-Ziegler reaction is named after Professors Alfred Wohl and Karl Ziegler . The Wohl-Aue reaction also bears the name Alfred Wohls.

Fonts (selection)

  • Organic chemistry and the science of life. 1910.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Inaugur.-Diss., Berlin 1886 published as compounds of hexamethylene amine with alkyl iodides in Ber. d. German Chem. Ges. 19 , 1840ff (1886)
  2. ↑ Official name: "Laboratory of the Association for the Beet Sugar Industry of the German Reich."
  3. ↑ Alfred Wohl's curriculum vitae on the TU Danzig website (in Polish, with picture).
  4. ^ Member entry by Alfred Wohl (with picture) at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on December 28, 2015.
  5. ^ Kurt Wohl - His Life and Work www.researchgate.net, January 2003.

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personal data
SURNAME Well, Alfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German chemist
DATE OF BIRTH October 3, 1863
PLACE OF BIRTH Graudenz , West Prussia
DATE OF DEATH December 25, 1939
Place of death Stockholm