Erwin Spiegelberg

Erwin Spiegelberg (born February 3, 1901 in Strasbourg , † 1938 in Rio de Janeiro ) was a German chemist .

Life

Erwin Spiegelberg was the son of the Strasbourg Egyptologist Wilhelm Spiegelberg and Elisabeth von Recklinghausen (1872–1948), daughter of the Strasbourg pathologist Friedrich Daniel von Recklinghausen . His brothers were Reinhard Spiegelberg (1900–1978, Benedictine) and Herbert Spiegelberg (1904–1990, philosopher).

He attended the Protestant grammar school in Strasbourg, the pedagogy in Wyk auf Föhr and the Lyceum II in Hanover , where he passed the final examination in March 1919. He then studied chemistry, in the summer semester of 1919 at the University of Freiburg , in the winter semester of 1919/20 and in the summer semester of 1920 at the University of Heidelberg , and since the winter semester of 1920/21 at the University of Würzburg , where he received his doctorate on July 6, 1926 under Otto Dimroth . He then worked at the German Research Institute for Food Chemistry in Munich.

In 1936 he emigrated from Germany because his father's Jewish origins meant he had no job prospects there and became a professor at the University of Rio de Janeiro . In 1938, Spiegelberg, suffering from depression, ended his life by suicide.

Publications (selection)

• About oxidations with lead tetraacetate and about the action of acridinium salts on compounds of the acetoacetic ester type , dissertation Würzburg 1926 (with curriculum vitae)

literature

• Herbert Spiegelberg: Doing Phenomenology. Essays on and in Phenomenology. The Hague, Nijhoff 1975, p. VII.
• Margret Boveri : Branches. Zurich, Piper 1977, pp. 97-98. 100, 152, 325.