Heinrich Kiliani
Heinrich Kiliani (born October 30, 1855 in Würzburg , † February 25, 1945 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) was a German chemist.
life and work
After graduating from high school, Kiliani began studying chemistry in Munich. He was as an academic student of Emil Erlenmeyer 1880 with work via a method of isolation of inulin doctorate and habilitated in Munich. In 1892 he took over a chair at the Technical University of Munich . In 1897 he followed a call to the University of Freiburg for a chair in medicinal chemistry.
His field of work was particularly carbohydrate chemistry , to which he made fundamental contributions. He also examined the ingredients of the digitalis . The chain lengthening of carbohydrates bears his name as Kiliani-Fischer synthesis . It is a special case of the cyanohydrin synthesis he developed . The nomenclature he developed for reactions, especially inorganic reactions, was relatively common around 1900.
His brother Martin Kiliani (1858–1895) was also a chemist and metallurgist and, alongside Paul Héroult, was one of the first directors of Aluminum-Industrie AG (AIAG, later Alusuisse ) in Neuhausen am Rheinfall and then head chemist at AEG .
In 1890 Kiliani was appointed a member of the Leopoldina .
Adolf Windaus , who later won the Nobel Prize, is one of his doctoral students .
literature
- Armin Wankmüller: Kiliani, Heinrich. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 11, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1977, ISBN 3-428-00192-3 , p. 606 ( digitized version ).
- Walter Hückel: Heinrich Kiliani October 30, 1855 - February 25, 1945. In: Chemical Reports. 82, 1949, pp. I-IX, doi : 10.1002 / cber.19490820117 .
Fonts
- Chemical internship for physicians , Munich: Ackermann, 3rd edition 1914
- with Wilhelm von Miller : Kurzes Lehrbuch der Analytischen Chemie , Munich: Ackermann 1884, 2nd edition 1891
See also
Web links
- Literature by and about Heinrich Kiliani in the catalog of the German National Library
- Biographical summary and appreciation of the TH Munich
- Biographical note from the University of Freiburg
Individual evidence
- ↑ Louis Fieser, Mary Fieser: Organic chemistry. 2nd Edition. Verlag Chemie, Weinheim 1972, ISBN 3-527-25075-1 , p. 1146.
- ^ Biographical data, publications and academic family tree of Heinrich Kiliani at academictree.org, accessed on February 15, 2018.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kiliani, Heinrich |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German chemist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 30, 1855 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wurzburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 25, 1945 |
| Place of death | Freiburg in Breisgau |