Georg Franz Merck
Georg Franz Merck (born January 20, 1825 in Darmstadt ; † March 18, 1873 ) was a German chemist and entrepreneur.
Life
Georg Franz Merck was the son of Heinrich Emanuel Merck and his wife Magdalena, née Hoffmann, (1797–1877) from Darmstadt. After attending a Darmstadt high school, he went to a higher trade school in the city. In 1840 he started in Speyer in the pharmacy of Georg Friedrich rolling a pharmacist teaching. He then worked as an assistant partly in his father's Engel pharmacy and in other large pharmacies in various cities. In 1845 he went to London to the Royal College of Chemistry , where he studied chemistry with August Wilhelm Hofmann . He then went to Giessen , where he was a student of Justus von Liebig in 1847 and received his doctorate in 1848 . Merck discovered the alkaloid papaverine from the residues of opium extraction , which he also gave this name to. Later he passed the pharmaceutical state examination and took over the Mercksche Engel pharmacy. There he mainly devoted himself to the economic aspects, including the E. Merck company .
AW von Hofmann wrote his obituary in 1873 in the reports of the German Chemical Society .
Georg Franz Merck was married to Anna, nee Schenck, (1830–1908) from Darmstadt. He had five children with her: Anna (1853–1952), Emanuel “Menes” August (1855–1923), Carl (1857–1858), Willy (1860–1932) and Elisabeth (1862–1947).
literature
- G. Schwedt: Liebig and his students: the new school of chemistry. Verlag Springer, 2002, ISBN 3-540-43205-1 , p. 17f. limited preview in Google Book search
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Merck, Georg Franz |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German chemist and entrepreneur |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 20, 1825 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Darmstadt |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 18, 1873 |