Gustaf Komppa

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Gustaf Komppa , also Gustav, (born July 28, 1867 in Vyborg , † January 20, 1949 in Karlajoha near Turku ) was a Finnish chemist.

Komppa was the son of a cab driver and studied chemistry at the Helsinki Polytechnic in 1887 with a diploma in 1890. While working as a chemist in food control, he received his master's degree from the University of Helsinki in 1891. In 1892 he was with Arthur Hantzsch at the ETH Zurich (then a polytechnic) and was then an assistant (with teaching assignment) at the University of Helsinki, where he received his doctorate in 1893 . In 1894 he became a lecturer, in 1903 head of the chemistry laboratory and in 1907 professor at the Helsinki Polytechnic. In 1937 he retired, but remained scientifically active.

He was a co-founder of the Finnish Academy of Sciences, the Finnish Chemical Society (1919) and the University of Turku (1935). In 1917 he was a co-founder of the pharmaceutical company Orion. In Finland, he published the session reports of the Finnish Academy since 1908 and he was the co-editor of the Finnish Technical Journal (in Finnish, previously Finnish Industrial Papers).

Komppa is known for his work on camphor . He synthesized apocamphoric acid and in 1903 camphoric acid and in 1905 he achieved the total synthesis of camphor. This was followed by total syntheses of camphenilone , Santen , santenone , Santenol , beta Fenchocamphoron , Verbanon , Pinonsäure , alpha- and delta- pinene u. a. He wrote a Finnish textbook on inorganic chemistry (as an adaptation of the textbook by Ira Remsen ).

In 1931 he was elected a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina . In 1940 he received the August Wilhelm von Hofmann medal .

The asteroid (1406) Komppa is named after him. A prize for the best dissertation in chemistry in Finland is named after him.

literature

  • Entry in Winfried Pötsch, Annelore Fischer, Wolfgang Müller: Lexicon of important chemists, Harri Deutsch 1989

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Poggendorff, Biogr. Handwörterbuch, Volume 5, 1926
  2. ↑ Total synthesis of camphor acid and camphor, 1903, and in reports d. Deutsche Chem. Ges., Volume 6, 1903, Volume 41, 1908, Synthesis of camphoric acid, J. London Chem. Soc., Volume 99, 1911
  3. ↑ Member entry of Gustav Komppa at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on December 2, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Komppa, Gustaf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Komppa, Gustav
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Finnish chemist
DATE OF BIRTH July 28, 1867
PLACE OF BIRTH Vyborg
DATE OF DEATH January 20, 1949
Place of death Karlajoha near Turku