Egor Egorovich Wagner

Jegor Jegorowitsch Wagner ( Russian Егор Егорович Вагнер , also Georg Wagner; born December 9, 1849 in Kazan , † November 27, 1903 in Warsaw ) was a Russian chemist.

Egor Egorovich Wagner

Wagner used the name Georg Wagner for publications in German-language magazines.

Wagner's father was a lawyer and civil servant of German origin, his mother came from the Russian aristocracy. He studied law at the University of Kazan from 1867 to become a lawyer like his father, but then switched to chemistry under the influence of Alexander Mikhailovich Saizew . Saizew had made Kazan a center of organic chemistry in Russia and many of his students became professors. Wagner got a very good degree in chemistry in 1874 and received a two-year scholarship to prepare for a professorship. He stayed one year with Saizew in Kazan and one year with Butlerow at the University of Saint Petersburg . Then he was assistant professor in Saint Petersburg until 1882 and then professor at the Forest and Agricultural Institute in Novo-Alexandria near Lublin , where he set up a laboratory for organic chemistry.

In 1886 he became the first professor of organic chemistry at the University of Warsaw , but in 1889 he moved to the newly founded Polytechnic in Warsaw, where he was professor of organic chemistry and dean of the chemistry faculty.

The Wagner-Meerwein rearrangement is named after him and Hans Meerwein , which he proposed as an explanation of the reaction in 1899 when investigating the chemistry of terpenes .

Web links

• Biography at the Royal Society of Chemistry
• Sementsov Egor Egorovich Vagner and his role in terpene chemistry , Chymia 11, 1966, 151-155, first page in Jstor