Eugen Ostermayer

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Eugen Ostermayer (born May 24, 1849 in Biberach ; † March 7, 1903 in Erfurt ) was a German pharmacist and chemist .

Life

Ostermayer completed his apprenticeship as a pharmacist in Biberach. He went through further training in Rottenburg , Hof and Cologne . After studying pharmacy for 3 semesters in Tübingen , he passed the pharmaceutical state examination there in 1870. He then studied chemistry for two more semesters in Würzburg and Tübingen . He then did his doctorate with the topic: "About a new hydrocarbon in coal tar oil" at Eittig.

Ostermayer and Eittig studied phenanthrene together . Further publications of the derivatives of pyridine , quinoline , naphthol and caffeine followed . At the TH Stuttgart he worked as an assistant to Hermann Fehling . Then he switched to industry. He worked for the company Dr. Schuchardt in Görlitz, at BASF and in the soda factory of the Schweizerhalle saltworks near Basel as an industrial chemist .

In 1876 Ostermayer bought the Löwenapotheke in Lörrach , but sold it again after 7 years. He then worked as a department head in the Food Inspection Office in Wiesbaden . In 1885 he became co-owner of the H. Trommsdorff company in Erfurt . He developed the odorless antiseptic Sozojodol and sold it through this company. Four years later he left again in 1889. In a trade laboratory that he set up in Erfurt, he was so seriously injured that he died of the consequences of the burns in 1903.

Works

  • Knowledge of iodophenolsulfonic acid and its homologues In: J. Prakt. Chem. 37 (1888), pp. 213-216
  • On the knowledge of sozoiodol In: Pharmazeutische Zeitung 40 (1895), p. 459

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personal data
SURNAME Ostermayer, Eugene
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pharmacist and chemist
DATE OF BIRTH May 24, 1849
PLACE OF BIRTH Biberach
DATE OF DEATH March 7, 1903
Place of death Erfurt