Adolf Edvard Arppe

Adolf Arppe

Adolf Edvard Arppe (born June 9, 1818 in Rides near Kitee , Karelia , † April 14, 1894 in Helsinki ) was a Finnish chemist ( organic chemistry , mineralogy ) and senator.

Life

Arppe was the son of a lawyer and studied chemistry and physics in Helsinki from 1833 to 1841, spent a year in Stockholm and received his doctorate in Helsinki in 1843 . From 1844 to 1847 he was at various universities in other European countries, including in Göttingen with Friedrich Wöhler , in Berlin with Eilhard Mitscherlich and in Giessen with Justus von Liebig . After his return he became professor of chemistry in Helsinki, but resigned in 1870 to hold other public offices. He was in the state parliament from 1863, although he was unpopular due to his advocacy for censorship of the press, had the supervision of industry from 1885 and was senator responsible for industry and trade from 1890. He was also rector of the university from 1858 to 1869.

In 1856 he was accepted into the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina . His academic nickname was Gahn .

In 1863 he was ennobled. His brother was the industrialist (sawmills, paper, ironworks) Nils Ludvig Arppe (1803–1861).

In organic chemistry, among other things, he was one of the first chemists to deal with isomeric disubstituted benzenes (e.g. dinitrobenzene ) and oxidation products of higher organic acids (fats), whereby he recognized that saturated compounds were formed from unsaturated compounds.

He also analyzed many minerals found in Finland (he also taught mineralogy at the university) and a meteorite.

literature

Winfried Pötsch, Annelore Fischer, Wolfgang Müller: Lexicon of important chemists , Harri Deutsch 1989

Web links

Finnish biography

Individual evidence

↑ JDF Neigebaur : History of the Imperial Leopoldino-Carolinian German Academy of Natural Scientists during the second century of its existence. Friedrich Frommann, Jena 1860, p. 282.

personal data
SURNAME	Arppe, Adolf Edvard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Finnish chemist (organic chemistry, mineralogy) and senator
DATE OF BIRTH	June 9, 1818
PLACE OF BIRTH	Rides at Kitee , Karelia
DATE OF DEATH	April 14, 1894
Place of death	Helsinki

[1] JDF Neigebaur : History of the Imperial Leopoldino-Carolinian German Academy of Natural Scientists during the second century of its existence. Friedrich Frommann, Jena 1860, p. 282.