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.

plant

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

1. ↑ 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.  
2. ↑ RP Huebener, H. Lübbig: The Chemical Laboratory and the Discovery of New Elements . In: A Focus of Discoveries , pp. 79-89 .