Eduard Vongerichten
Eduard Vongerichten (born February 29, 1852 in Landau in the Palatinate , † August 28, 1930 in Überlingen on Lake Constance) was a German chemist.
He attended the Latin school in Landau, studied from 1870 in Würzburg under Emil Fischer and obtained his doctorate in 1873. phil. in Erlangen. Two years later he completed his habilitation and in 1877 he became head of the chemical university laboratory in Erlangen. 1878–1881 he worked for Adolf von Baeyer . From 1882 he was initially an employee at the Hoechst paintworks , later an authorized signatory and head of the scientific research laboratories. He contributed significantly to the fact that the antipyrine synthesized by Ludwig Knorr was taken over into production. In 1893 he settled in Strasbourg as a private scholar and at the same time ran his own laboratory. In May 1902 he was appointed to the chair for technical chemistry in Jena. He retired twenty years later.
He researched dye chemistry and the structure of alkaloids.
literature
- HP Kaufmann: Eduard Vongerichten (1852–1930) ; In reports of the German chemical society ; Volume 64 Issue 11, Pages A201 - A210; 2006 doi: 10.1002 / cber.19310641138
- R. Stolz: Naturalist in Central Germany - Thuringia ; Quedlinburg, Bussert & Stadeler, 2003
Individual evidence
- ^ Johann Peter Murmann: Knowledge and Competitive Advantage: The Coevolution of Firms, Technology, and National Institutions . Cambridge University Press, 2003, ISBN 0-521-81329-8 , pp. 26 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
- ↑ Chemical-Geoscientific Faculty of the Friedrich Schiller University Jena: History of the Institute ( Memento from May 30, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Vongerichten, Eduard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German chemist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 29, 1852 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Landau in the Palatinate |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 28, 1930 |
| Place of death | Überlingen |