Johannes Gadamer

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Johannes Gadamer and Hans-Georg Monument in Breslau

Johannes Georg Gadamer (born April 1, 1867 in Waldenburg , Province of Silesia , † April 15, 1928 in Marburg ) was a German chemist .

Life

Johannes Gadamer, son of the entrepreneur Oskar Gadamer and his wife Anna, née Puschmann, began his career as a pharmacist.

He then moved to Marburg to study, where he joined the Hasso-Borussia team. He placed at the University of Marburg in 1893 his state examination and was in 1895 as an academic student of Ernst Schmidt with a thesis on contributions to the knowledge of Thiosinamins and his Halogenadditiionsproducte Dr. phil. PhD . In 1897 he completed his habilitation there, with Ernst Schmidt remaining his mentor. In 1900 his son, the important philosopher Hans-Georg Gadamer was born. In 1902 he accepted a professorship for pharmaceutical chemistry at the University of Breslau and stayed there until 1919. As the successor to Ernst Schmidt, he then took over his professorship at the Philipps University of Marburg, where he was rector from 1921–1922. His work as an academic teacher led, in continuation of the Schmidt school of his academic teacher, to the creation of a Gadamer school.

Act

In addition to his extensive scientific work on the structure of natural substances (focus: alkaloids ), Gadamer took on extensive other tasks. From 1913 to 1915 he was dean of the philosophy faculty at the University of Wroclaw. In 1915 he was appointed to the Reich Health Council, in 1916 he was appointed to the Privy Councilor. To the Dr. med. hc received his doctorate from the Medical Faculty of the University of Wroclaw in 1927 .

Works

literature

Individual evidence

  1. Hessisches Staatsarchiv Marburg (HStAMR), Best. 915 No. 5731, p. 240 ( digitized version ).
  2. Life data, publications and academic family tree of Johannes Georg Gadamer at academictree.org, accessed on February 7, 2018.
  3. Louis Fieser, Mary Fieser: Organic chemistry. 2nd Edition. Verlag Chemie, Weinheim 1972, ISBN 3-527-25075-1 , p. 1400.
  4. See list of rectors at the Philipps University of Marburg
  5. Cf. Christoph Friedrich, Wissenschaftlicheschulen und die Marburger Pharmazie, in: Pharmazeutische Zeitung online 28, 2001, here the chapter: The Gadamer School ( link to the article on the website ).
  6. Werner Schulemann : Johannes Gadamer † , in: Angewandte Chemie 41 (1928) 487-488.