Hans Leopold Meyer

(Johannes) Hans Leopold Meyer (born March 31, 1871 in Vienna ; † November 28, 1942 in Theresienstadt concentration camp ) was an Austrian organic chemist .

family

His father, Gotthelf Karl Meyer (1844–1905) was a lawyer, wholesaler, writer and consul general of the Republic of Guatemala in Vienna. Even the grandfather Isaak Lewin († 1871) from Stavenhagen in Mecklenburg was consul here. His mother, Clara Regina (1847–1924), was the daughter of the Mainz merchant Benedikt Goldschmidt (1818–1906). He and his siblings Stefan Meyer and Hertha, whom Immanuel Friedlaender married, were brought up as a Christian.

In 1898 he married Ottilie Pribram (1876–1919), the daughter of the lawyer Otto Pribram (1844–1917; brother of the chemist Richard Pribram ) and Leonore, born in Prague . Popper. With her he had three sons and a daughter. In 1921 he married Alice (1891–1981), the daughter of Josef Hofmann and Paula Zechendorf.

Career

Hans Leopold Meyer studied at the Bergakademie Freiberg , at the Technical University of Vienna and at the universities in Heidelberg and Vienna, with Josef Herzig . In 1894 he acquired his Dr. phil.

He initially became assistant at the chair for analytical chemistry at the Vienna University of Technology. With Herzig, he investigated natural substances and developed a method for the quantitative determination of nitrogen-bound alkyl, which became a valuable aid in the determination of alkaloid structures.

In 1897 he became an adjunct at the German University in Prague. He was also a private lecturer at the German Technical University from 1897, an associate professor from 1904 and full professor for general and analytical chemistry from 1908. In 1911 he also became professor of chemistry at the German University in Prague. Hans Tropsch and Hans Kautsky were among his students . In 1936 he retired for health reasons. He died in 1942 in the Theresienstadt concentration camp.

Honors

• In 1899 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina .
• In 1905 he received the Lieben Prize .
• A memorial stele of the Leopoldina in Halle (Saale) in memory of nine members of the academy who were murdered in the concentration camps of the National Socialists or died of the inhuman and cruel conditions of camp imprisonment also commemorates Hans Meyer.

Publications

• Instructions for the quantitative determination of atomic groups ; 1897
• Analysis and determination of the constitution of organic compounds ; 1903
• with Karl Steiner: Note on the determination of the alkyl on nitrogen ; 1914
• Organic chemical methodology textbook ; 3 volumes; 1922-1940

literature

• Hans Leopold Meyer. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 5, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1972, p. 427.
• Bernd Wöbke:  Meyer, Hans Leopold. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 17, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1994, ISBN 3-428-00198-2 , p. 320 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Jiří Pešek - David Šaman, Hans Meyer - klíčová postava pražské německé univerzitní chemie prvé třetiny 20. století [Hans Meyer - the most important personality of the chemistry department at the Prague German University in the first third of the 20th century]. In: Acta Universitatis Carolinae. Historia Universitatis Carolinae Pragensis 49/1 (2009), pp. 43-93. (German summary p. 91–92) ( digitized version )
• Meyer, Hans Leopold. In: Susanne Blumesberger, Michael Doppelhofer, Gabriele Mauthe: Handbook of Austrian authors of Jewish origin from the 18th to the 20th century. Volume 2: J-R. Edited by the Austrian National Library. Saur, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-598-11545-8 , p. 927.

Web links

Wikisource: Hans Leopold Meyer  - Sources and full texts

• Member entry of Hans Meyer at the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina , accessed on 26 January 2017th

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Yesterday's Scientific World, p. 123.
2. ↑ Leopoldina erects a stele in memory of Nazi victims (2009)