Adolf Eyme

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Adolf Eyme as a student in Göttingen in 1883

Adolf Eyme (born July 20, 1861 in Zorge , † July 19, 1925 in Berlin-Friedenau ) was a German chemist and university professor .

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Adolf Eyme (3rd from right) in the circle of Holzminda - 1885

Adolf Eyme was born the son of a chief forester in Zorge am Harz. After graduating from high school in Holzminden , he went to study in Tübingen and Berlin , first to complete his year of service as a one-year volunteer and then to study philosophy , history and geography . In the summer of 1883 he went to the Georg-August University of Göttingen , where he worked in the compound and later fraternity Holzminda occurred. From 1886 to 1896 he then worked as a tutor . Mild right-sided paralysis was left after a stroke , which led to changes in his life. He learned to write on the left and began studying chemistry, which was entirely new to him, in Berlin, which he completed in 1901 with his dissertation . He then worked as a chemist at the Prussian State Geological Institute , where after some time he was given a professorship in chemistry. One of his main research areas was the carbodiimides . He was a respected mineral analyst and was described by Franz Beyschlag , among others, as "infallible" in his analyzes. He died in Berlin in 1925.

Publications

literature

  • Obituary in: Geological Yearbook. Volume 46, page lxxxvi.
  • Obituary in: Glückauf , Volume 61, Issue 2, Essen 1925, p. 1012.
  • Obituary in: Lundius (Ed.): Alte-Herren-Zeitung of the fraternity of Holzminda Göttingen. XXVIII. Year, Pinneberg 1926, pp. 1–2.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Wilhelm Ebel : The register of the Georg-August-Universität zu Göttingen 1837-1900. Hildesheim 1974. (No. 60823, registered on May 11, 1883 & No. 61762, de-registered on December 9, 1885)
  2. ^ Federal Institute for Soil Research: Supplements to the Geological Yearbook. 1969, p. 68.
personal data
SURNAME Eyme, Adolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German chemist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH July 20, 1861
PLACE OF BIRTH Concern
DATE OF DEATH July 19, 1925
Place of death Berlin-Friedenau