Jakob Meisenheimer
Jakob Meisenheimer (born June 14, 1876 in Griesheim am Main , † December 2, 1934 in Tübingen ) was a German chemist .
Life
After graduating from high school (1895) at the municipal high school in Frankfurt am Main, Meisenheimer studied chemistry at the University of Heidelberg and from 1896 at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich , where he received his doctorate in 1898 under Johannes Thiele ( on addition phenomena in polyunsaturated carboxylic acids ). After one year of military service in Koblenz, he was Johannes Thiele's assistant in Munich until 1902. From 1902 to 1909 he was at the Agricultural University in Berlin with Eduard Buchner , where he completed his habilitation in 1904 and in 1909 succeeded Buchner as professor. From 1914 to 1918 he last served as captain of a pioneer battalion in the First World War. In 1918 he became a full professor at the University of Greifswald and from 1922 as successor to Wilhelm Wislicenus Professor of Chemistry at the University of Tübingen .
He lived in Berlin-Dahlem until 1919 , where he had a residential villa built by the architect Heinrich Schweitzer .
Meisenheimer and Helmut Meis explained the mechanism of the Beckmann rearrangement . The Meisenheimer rearrangement and the Meisenheimer complexes , which he isolated for the first time , are named after him .
He was a corresponding member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences .
He is the brother of Johannes Meisenheimer and was married to Elmire Thiel, daughter of Hugo Thiel , since 1909 .
Fonts (selection)
- with Walter Theilacker : Stereochemistry of nitrogen , 1933
- The structure of molecules from atoms , Verlag W. Kohlhammer, 1934
literature
- Armin Wankmüller: Meisenheimer, Jakob. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 16, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-428-00197-4 , pp. 685 f. ( Digitized version ).
Web links
- Literature by and about Jakob Meisenheimer in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ Life data, publications and academic family tree of Jakob Meisenheimer at academictree.org, accessed on January 2, 2019.
- ^ Two project sheets of the Landhaus Prof. Meisenheimer; Architecture museum of the Technical University of Berlin
- ^ Jakob Meisenheimer obituary in the 1935 yearbook of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences (PDF file).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Meisenheimer, Jakob |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German chemist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 14, 1876 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Griesheim am Main |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 2, 1934 |
| Place of death | Tübingen |