Heinrich Walbaum

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Heinrich Wilhelm Walbaum (born April 2, 1864 in Stade , † 1946 ) was a German chemist .

Life

The son of the secret government councilor Theodor Walbaum and Elisabeth Walbaum, née van Nes, attended a secondary school in Hanover , where he passed the Abitur. He studied chemistry, philosophy and natural sciences at the Technical University of Hanover and at the universities in Strasbourg , Göttingen , Kiel and Marburg . In 1889 he was in Marburg with the dissertation Concerning the action of chlorine on oxybenzoic to Dr. phil. PhD . From October 1889 to October 1891 he worked as a scientific assistant to Otto Wallach , the head of the Chemical Institute at Göttingen University.

From 1891 Walbaum worked as a chemist for the Leipzig company Schimmel & Co. , which was founded in 1829 as a trading company for medicinal drugs and specialized in the manufacture of oils and fragrances. At the turn of the century, the company moved its headquarters to Miltitz , where Walbaum continued his work as a department head for scientific and technical research.

In 1895, Walbaum clarified the chemical structure of neroli oil , which is contained in bitter orange blossoms . This made it possible to produce this oil synthetically. He isolated the main component of musk , the muscon , eleven years later.

He was a member of the German Chemical Society , the Association of German Chemists and, since 1909, of the Kepler Association . He published his scientific contributions on flower oils, essential oils and animal fragrances in the reports of the German Chemical Society and in the Journal for Practical Chemistry .

Heinrich Walbaum had been married to Charlotte Lohmann since 1897. She was the daughter of the wholesale merchant Dietrich Lohmann, who worked in Mexico.

literature

  • Herrmann AL Degener (Ed.): Who is it? - Our contemporaries. IX. Output. Verlag Herrmann Degener, Leipzig 1928, p. 1636.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Günther Beer, Horst Remane : Otto Wallach , 1847-1931: Chemist and Nobel Prize Winner: Memoirs, Potsdam, Berlin, Bonn, Göttingen . in: Studies and sources for the history of chemistry, Vol. 12. Verlag für Wissenschafts- und Regionalgeschichte Engel, Berlin, 2000, p. 268
  2. ↑ a b Aromas and Essences from Leipzig , in: Deutsche Apotheker Zeitung . 32, 2012 ( online )
personal data
SURNAME Walbaum, Heinrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Walbaum, Heinrich Wilhelm (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German chemist
DATE OF BIRTH April 2, 1864
PLACE OF BIRTH Stade
DATE OF DEATH 1946