Carl Adam Bischoff
Carl Adam Bischoff (born April 8, 1855 in Würzburg , † October 18, 1908 in Munich ) was a German chemist.
Life
Bischoff was the son of a factory owner and from 1873 studied medicine and then chemistry in Würzburg (with Johannes Wislicenus ), Wiesbaden (1876 with Carl Remigius Fresenius ) and Heidelberg (1877 with Robert Bunsen ). At Wislicenus he worked with Max Conrad and went as Wislicenus' assistant to Leipzig in 1885, where he was (as in Würzburg) a private lecturer. In 1887 he became a professor in Riga at the Polytechnic as the successor to Wilhelm Ostwald .
He dealt with organic synthesis and was a pioneer of stereochemistry , about which he published a manual with Paul Walden in 1894 .
On October 18, 1888 , he became a member of the Leopoldina .
Fonts
- with Paul Walden (editor): Handbuch der Stereochemie . H. Bechhold, Frankfurt a. M. 1894, Archives
literature
- Georg Lockemann : Bischoff, Carl Adam. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1955, ISBN 3-428-00183-4 , p. 264 ( digitized version ).
Web links
- Photo, Digiporta
- Lectures in Leipzig
- Member entry of Carl Adam Bischoff at the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina , accessed on May 4, 2017.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bischoff, Carl Adam |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German chemist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 8, 1855 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wurzburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 18, 1908 |
| Place of death | Munich |