Edgar Wedekind
Edgar Leon Waldemar Otto Wedekind (born January 31, 1870 in Altona (near Hamburg), † October 22, 1938 in Erfurt ) was a German chemist and university professor.
Wedekind received his doctorate on tetrazolium compounds in Munich in 1895 and completed his habilitation in 1899 at the University of Leipzig .
He taught as a professor for analytical, physical and special inorganic chemistry at the universities of Tübingen, Strasbourg, Frankfurt a. M., Göttingen and at the Forestry University of Hannoversch-Münden and became a member of the Erfurt Academy in 1938 .
Together with the mycologist Richard Falck, he discovered and chemically analyzed the first antibiotic Sparassol (1923). He defended Falck against anti-Semitic attacks by the students.
In November 1933 he signed the German professors' confession of Adolf Hitler .
Fonts
- On the stereochemistry of pentavalent nitrogen: with special consideration of the asymmetric nitrogen in the aromatic series , Leipzig 1899 (= habilitation thesis)
- The heterocyclic compounds of organic chemistry. A textbook and reference book for study and practice. Veit & Comp., Leipzig 1901 ( archive.org )
- Magnetochemistry. Relationships between magnetic properties and chemical nature. Borntraeger Brothers , Berlin 1911 ( archive.org )
- Colloid chemistry , Berlin 1925
- Stereochemistry , Berlin, 3rd A. 1923
- Chemistry and forestry: Chemotherapy of the forest , Hann. Münden 1929
Web links
- Ernst Späth, Karl Jeschki: About the Sparassol. In: Reports of the German Chemical Society (A and B Series). 57, 1924, pp. 471-474, doi: 10.1002 / cber.19240570320 .
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Wedekind, Edgar |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Wedekind, Edgar Leon Waldemar Otto (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German chemist and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 31, 1870 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Altona (near Hamburg) |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 22, 1938 |
| Place of death | Erfurt |