Georg Städeler

Georg Städeler at the Zurich Polytechnic

Georg Andreas Karl Städeler (born March 25, 1821 in Hanover , † January 11, 1871 in Hanover) was a German chemist and university professor.

After attending school, Georg Städeler initially trained as a pharmacy assistant. He then studied natural sciences at the University of Göttingen and received his doctorate under Friedrich Wöhler in 1846 . He also completed his habilitation in Göttingen around 1849. In 1853 he accepted a chair at the University of Zurich , and two years later he was appointed professor for analytical chemistry at the Zurich Polytechnic .

Due to illness, he gave up teaching in 1870 and died the following year. He had been an assessor since 1851 and a corresponding member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences since 1853 .

Städeler first examined various natural substances and their chemical breakdown products, such as the effects of chlorine. After his habilitation in 1849, he turned more to physiological chemistry and examined, for example, the excretion products in urine , the chemistry of tyrosine and bile pigments. From 1859 to 1860 he and Rudolph Fittig had a violent dispute about the condensation products of acetone.

Web links

Obituary by Karl Kraut for Georg Städeler in Ber. d. German Chem. Ges. 4 , 425-428 (1871).
Bernhard Lepsius : Städeler, Georg Andreas Karl . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 35, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1893, pp. 778-780.

Individual evidence

↑ Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 231.

personal data
SURNAME	Städeler, Georg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Städeler, Georg Andreas Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German chemist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH	March 25, 1821
PLACE OF BIRTH	Hanover
DATE OF DEATH	January 11, 1871
Place of death	Hanover

[1] Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 231.