Fritz Arndt

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Fritz Arndt (born July 6, 1885 in Hamburg ; † December 8, 1969 there ) was a German and Turkish chemist.

Life

Arndt, son of the businessman Oscar Arndt, completed his school days in his hometown and began to study chemistry at the University of Geneva . He later moved to the University of Berlin and successfully completed his studies at the University of Freiburg in 1908 with a doctorate under Ludwig Gattermann .

In the same year he got a job as a research assistant in Freiburg. He later moved to Greifswald and Kiel in the same position . There he completed his habilitation in 1911 and went to the University of Breslau as a private lecturer .

In 1915 Arndt accepted a position at the Darülfünun and taught there for three years. In 1918 he returned to Breslau as an associate professor , where he advanced ten years later to o.

1933, after the takeover by the Nazis , Arndt was one of the first from his office distributed . In the same year he emigrated to Great Britain and was given a teaching position at Oxford University for a few months . In 1934 he accepted a position at Istanbul University and was soon promoted to director of the university's chemical institute .

Together with colleagues and other emigrants , he founded a private academy there a little later . On behalf of the Turkish Ministry of Education, he translated the ancient Arabic chemical symbols into the internationally known symbols. Arndt worked as a chemist and teacher in Istanbul for almost 20 years. Then he returned to his hometown, got the status of emeritus and from 1955 worked as an honorary professor at the University of Hamburg . He held this office until the end of his life. In 1964 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina Scholars' Academy .

Arndt is considered to be a co-founder of the teaching of mesomerism . He was mainly concerned with organic chemistry and was one of the first to introduce diazomethane as a preparative aid.

The Arndt-Eistert homologation described by him and Bernd Eistert bears his name.

Fritz Arndt was married to Hertha geb. Hübner and had three children.

Works

  • Methods of organic chemistry (Houben-Weyl) 1953
  • About aromatic isothioureas and orthotiocarbonic acid esters, Habilitation thesis Breslau 1912
  • Short chemical internship for doctors and farmers (1912)
  • Investigations into new derivatives of o-toluchinoline, dissertation Freiburg 1908

literature

  • Exile under the crescent moon and the star. (With) Herbert Scurla's report on the activities of German university professors in Turkey during the National Socialist era ISBN 3-89861-768-8 (via FAS 113f. And list of names)
  • Arnold Reisman: Turkey's Modernization. Refugees from Nazism and Ataturk's Vision. New Academia, Washington DC 2006 ISBN 0977790886 ( previous text from 2004 and opinions on the book see Art. Haymatloz). Online searchable in google books. (Arndt 29 mentions)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ after Reisman, p. 198 with note 16, he had had this citizenship since WWII
  2. ↑ Life data, publications and academic family tree of Fritz Arndt at academictree.org, accessed on January 1, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Arndt, Fritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German and Turkish chemist
DATE OF BIRTH July 6, 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH December 8, 1969
Place of death Hamburg