Franz Mylius
Franz Benno Mylius (born May 27, 1854 in Soldin, today Myślibórz , † March 6, 1931 in Berlin ) was a German chemist.
Life
Mylius was born the son of a pharmacist. After attending grammar school in Guben without a degree, he went through an apprenticeship in his father's pharmacy. He then worked in various locations as a pharmacist's assistant before he began studying pharmacy in 1876, which he completed after two years. After a short service as a military pharmacist, he briefly managed his father's pharmacy. A year later he went to August Wilhelm Hofmann in Berlin, then moved to Göttingen, where he received his doctorate in 1883 . He then went to Freiburg, where he at Eugen Baumann in 1885 habilitated .
He entered the civil service again and from 1887 headed the chemical department of the Physikalisch Technische Reichsanstalt . There he became a professor in 1893 and worked until his retirement in 1923.
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His research area included both inorganic and organic chemical topics. At the Reichsanstalt he examined in particular the resistance of glass to various chemicals.
literature
- Herbert Teichmann: Mylius, Franz Benno. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 18, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-428-00199-0 , p. 665 f. ( Digitized version ).
Individual evidence
- ↑ RW Soukup and A. Schober: A library as eloquent witness of a comprehensive change in the scientific worldview. ( Memento of the original from October 31, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Part I: The authors of the works in the library of Robert Wilhelm Bunsen in short biographies . Diploma thesis TU Vienna.
- ↑ RP Huebener, H. Lübbig: The Chemical Laboratory and the Discovery of New Elements . In: A Focus of Discoveries , pp. 79-89 .
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SURNAME | Mylius, Franz |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Mylius, Franz Benno |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German chemist |
DATE OF BIRTH | May 27, 1854 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Myślibórz |
DATE OF DEATH | March 6, 1931 |
Place of death | Berlin |