Adolph Strecker
Adolph Friedrich Ludwig Ewald Strecker , also Adolf Strecker (born October 21, 1822 in Darmstadt , † November 7, 1871 in Würzburg ) was a German chemist.
Life
After graduating from the higher vocational school in his hometown, Strecker studied natural sciences at the Ludwig University of Giessen from 1840 . Since 1841 he was a member of the Corps Teutonia Giessen .
In chemistry he became a student of Justus von Liebig . In 1842, Strecker was able to complete his studies with a doctorate . He then went to the Realgymnasium in Darmstadt as a teacher, but returned to Gießen in 1846 as Liebig's private assistant . There he completed his habilitation in 1849 with a thesis on ox bile and briefly became a lecturer at the University of Giessen.
In 1851 he went to the Kgl as a professor . Frederiks Universitet in Oslo , where he also taught at the Norwegian Military Academy, and returned to Germany to the University of Tübingen in 1860 . In Würzburg at this time the subject was transferred from the medical faculty ( Joseph von Scherer ) to the philosophy faculty. In 1870 he followed the call made in 1869 as the successor to the late Johann Joseph Scherer to the first full chair for organic chemistry in the Philosophical Faculty with the newly established chemical institute of the Julius Maximilians University in Maxstrasse in Würzburg, where he shortly afterwards in 1871 died of the consequences of chronic thallium poisoning in kidney failure caused by experiments in Tübingen . His successor was Johannes Wislicenus after a year of vacancy .
In 1857, at the suggestion of Justus von Liebig, he was accepted as a corresponding member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences .
Strecker dealt with the analysis, structure elucidation and synthesis of numerous natural substances , especially amino acids and dyes such as alizarin , with other nitrogen-containing groups of substances, but also with the analytical separation of subgroup metals and the beginnings of organometallic chemistry.
The Strecker synthesis for amino acids from aldehydes , ammonia and hydrocyanic acid and the Strecker breakdown of α-amino acids to aldehydes, ammonia and water are named after him .
Works (selection)
- Investigations into the chemical constitution of the main constituent parts of ox bile . Habilitation, Giessen 1849
- Regnault-Strecker's short textbook on chemistry . Vieweg, Braunschweig 1851 Digitized edition of the University and State Library Düsseldorf
literature
- Bernhard Lepsius : Adolf Strecker . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 36, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1893, pp. 555-560.
- Holger Münzel: Max von Frey. Life and work with special consideration of his sensory-physiological research. Würzburg 1992 (= Würzburg medical historical research, 53), ISBN 3-88479-803-0 , p. 202 f. (Adolph Strecker).
- Rudolf Wagner: memorial speech for Adolf Strecker. In: Negotiations of the Physical-Medical Society of Würzburg. New series 2, 1872, pp. XXIV – XXIX.
Web links
- Literature by and about Adolph Strecker in the catalog of the German National Library
- Biographical note
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1930, 39 , 45.
- ↑ Successor to the Chair for Organic Chemistry: Johannes Wislicenus (1872–1885).
- ^ Franz von Kobell : Adolph Strecker (obituary) . In: Meeting reports of the mathematical-physical class of the KB Academy of Sciences in Munich . No. 1 , 1872, p. 99–100 ( online [PDF; accessed April 23, 2017]).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Strecker, Adolph |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Strecker, Adolph Friedrich Ludwig Ewald (full name); Strecker, Adolf |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German chemist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 21, 1822 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Darmstadt |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 7, 1871 |
| Place of death | Wurzburg |