Heinrich Byk

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Heinrich Byk (born July 7, 1845 in Brody , † July 2, 1923 in Berlin ) was a German chemist and entrepreneur .

Life

Byk was born in 1845 as the son of the Jewish banker Samuel Alexander Byk in Brody, Galicia, which at that time belonged to the Austro-Hungarian monarchy. His father was a follower of the Haskala . In 1850 he moved with his family to liberal Prussia. He lived first in Berlin and from 1859 in Leipzig . He attended the humanistic Thomas School until 1864 . After graduation, he studied natural sciences at the Ruprecht-Karls-University of Heidelberg and the University of Leipzig and was 1870 Hermann Kolbe with the dissertation The isomeric succinic acids for Dr. phil. PhD .

In 1873 he moved to Berlin and founded the Dr. Heinrich Byk . One of the first products from his chemical factory was the first synthetic sedative / hypnotic chloral hydrate, discovered by Oscar Liebreich in 1869 . In 1881 the company name was changed to Dr. Heinrich Byk, factory of pharmaceutical, photographic and technical products renamed. In 1885 he relocated chemical production to Oranienburg near Berlin. In 1896 the company was converted into a stock corporation (share capital: 1.5 million gold marks) and took the new name Chemische Werke vorm. Dr. Heinrich Byk . In 1911 he received the gold medal at the International Hygiene Exhibition Dresden in 1911 for his products Euphyllin and Pergenol . In 1915 Heinrich Byk withdrew from his company and handed over responsibility to the chemist Paul Gulden . The company now carried the name Byk Gulden until 2002. The additives manufactured since 1935 are still offered by BYK Additives & Instruments today .

Together with his brother Siegmund Byk , he was accepted into the Frankfurt Freemason Lodge in 1892 at the rising dawn .

family

Heinrich Byk was married to Agnes Bamberger, daughter of Sigismund Bamberger (1817–1881) and sister of the professor at the ETH Zurich Eugen Bamberger . The couple lived in Charlottenburg and had three sons, Alfred, Rudolph and Walter, and a daughter, Alice, who worked with the ear, nose and throat specialist Dr. Lutz Albesheim was married in Berlin. After his wife's death in 1907, Heinrich Byk moved to live with his son, the lawyer and notary Rudolf Byk , in Berlin-Schöneberg . Heinrich's eldest son Alfred Byk was a professor of physical chemistry in Berlin. In 1913, his niece Suse Byk opened a photo studio on Kurfürstendamm .

Honors

In Oranienburg, Dr.-Heinrich-Byk-Strasse was named after him.

literature

  • Ernst Peter Fischer: Byk Gulden. Inquiry and entrepreneurship. 2nd edition, Piper, Munich 1998. ISBN 3-492-04073-X .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Journal of Electrochemistry and Applied Physical Chemistry 29 (1923), p. 508.
  2. ↑ Richard Sachse , Karl Ramshorn, Reinhart Herz: The teachers of the Thomasschule in Leipzig 1832-1912. The high school graduates of the Thomas School in Leipzig 1845–1912 . BG Teubner Verlag, Leipzig 1912, p. 41.
  3. ↑ Peter Oehme : Oscar Liebreich and his chloral hydrate . Milestones in pharmacology in Berlin. Deutsche Apotheker Zeitung, Volume 159, January 24, 2019, No. 4, pp. 56–59.
personal data
SURNAME Byk, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German chemist and entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH July 7, 1845
PLACE OF BIRTH Brody
DATE OF DEATH July 2, 1923
Place of death Berlin