Heinrich Hlasiwetz

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obituary

Heinrich Hermann Hlasiwetz (born April 7, 1825 in Reichenberg , Bohemia , † October 8, 1875 in Vienna ) was an Austrian chemist .

Heinrich Hlasiwetz learned pharmacy , then studied at the universities of Jena, Vienna and Prague, became Friedrich Rochleder's assistant in 1849 , and in 1851 he was an associate professor and in 1854 a full professor of chemistry in Innsbruck.

Here he set up a chemical laboratory and worked with great success as a teacher and researcher. In 1867 he followed a call as professor of chemical technology at the Technical University in Vienna , and in 1869 he exchanged this chair for general chemistry.

In the academic year 1872/73 he was elected rector of the Vienna University of Technology and in 1873 took over the department for technical universities in the Ministry of Education.

Hlasiwetz has made a great number of studies, especially in the field of organic chemistry. His work on beech tar creosote , resins , tannic acids , phloroglucinol , alkaloids , sugars and proteins are particularly noteworthy . He died in Vienna shortly after he married the Baroness Antershofen. His student Ludwig Barth zu Barthenau received the offer for this position at the Technical University, but he decided to succeed Franz von Schneider at the University of Vienna.

One of his ancestors, Philipp Hlasiwetz, was the son-in-law of Ignaz Kittel, a relative of Johann Josef Kittel , and had taken over his pharmacy on the market in Reichenberg.

literature

Constantin von Wurzbach : Hlasiwetz, Heinrich Hermann . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 9th part. Imperial-Royal Court and State Printing Office, Vienna 1863, p. 62 f. ( Digitized version ).
Albert Ladenburg: Hlasiwetz, Heinrich . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 12, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1880, pp. 513-516.
Hlasiwetz Heinrich. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 2, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1959, p. 340.
Wilfrid Oberhummer: Hlasiwetz, Heinrich. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 9, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1972, ISBN 3-428-00190-7 , pp. 277 f. ( Digitized version ).
Johannes Uray, Organic Chemistry in Chemical Research and Teaching at Austrian Universities between 1840 and 1870. In: Report on the 25th Austrian Historians' Day in St. Pölten 2008. St. Pölten 2010, pp. 402–427.
Juliane Mikoletzky, Sabine Plakolm-Forsthuber (editor): A Collection of Extraordinary Completeness / A Collection of Unusual Completeness: Die Rektorengalerie der Technische Universität Wien / The Gallery of Rectors of the TU Wien . Festschrift 200 years Technical University of Vienna, Volume 13, Vienna, Böhlau-Verlag 2015, ISBN 978-3-205-20113-7 , page 53 ( limited preview in Google book search)

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Literature by and about Heinrich Hlasiwetz in the catalog of the German National Library
Entry on Heinrich Hlasiwetz in the Austria Forum (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon )
Obituary In: Reports of the German Chemical Society in Berlin, 1876, p. 1961

personal data
SURNAME	Hlasiwetz, Heinrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Hlasiwetz, Heinrich Hermann (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian chemist
DATE OF BIRTH	April 7, 1825
PLACE OF BIRTH	Reichenberg
DATE OF DEATH	October 8, 1875
Place of death	Vienna