Friedrich Fittica

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Friedrich Bernhard Fittica (born March 10, 1850 in Amsterdam , † April 23, 1912 in Marburg ) was a chemist .

As the son of German parents, he attended school in East Friesland and learned a pharmacist there . He later studied chemistry at the University of Leipzig under Wiedemann and Hermann Kolbe , where he received his doctorate in 1873 . In the years 1874/1875 he worked as a teacher at the Chemical Institute of the Stuttgart Polytechnic , a forerunner of today's University of Stuttgart . From 1875 he was the first assistant at the chemical institute of the University of Marburg , where he completed his habilitation in 1876 . In 1884 he became an associate professor in Marburg.

From 1876 to 1886 he published critical studies of the structural chemical theories of A. Kekules . His field of work was isomerism in di- and trisubstituted benzene derivatives . His more recent investigations focused on the alleged conversion of oxalic acid into chlorine (Göttingen 1904). In his last work he was particularly concerned with the question of the transformation of the elements on the basis of the latest chemical theories. Among other things, he investigated the conversion of aluminum into beryllium and thallium .

From 1877 to 1900/1906 Fittica published the annual report founded by Liebig and Kopp on the progress of chemistry and related parts of other sciences . On April 12, 1891, he was accepted into the Leopoldina . He has emerged as a poet with several dramatic works and two collections of lyrical poems.

literature

  • AF Rocke: The Quiet Revolution. Hermann Kolbe and the Science of Organic Chemiestry ; Univ. of Calif. Press, Berkeley, 1993, p. 321
  • Ch. Meinel: Chemistry at the University of Marburg since the beginning of the 19th century ; Elwert-Verlag, Marburg 1978, p. 501.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ see Hessisches Staatsarchiv Marburg (HStAMR), Best. 915 No. 5701, p. 210 ( digitized version ).
  2. ↑ kislexikon.hu: Fittica
  3. ↑ University of Marburg: Brief overview of the development of chemistry at the Philipps University of Marburg from 1609 to the present (PDF; 1.5 MB)
  4. ↑ archive.org: "Leopoldina"
  5. ^ Open Library: Friedrich Bernhard Fittica
personal data
SURNAME Fittica, Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fittica, Friedrich Bernhard (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Chemist
DATE OF BIRTH March 10, 1850
PLACE OF BIRTH Amsterdam
DATE OF DEATH April 23, 1912
Place of death Marburg