Julius Bredt
Konrad Julius Bredt (born March 29, 1855 in Berlin , † September 21, 1937 in Aachen ) was a German chemist .
life and work
Bredt was the son of the administrative officer and politician Wilhelm August Bredt (1817–1895), from whom he inherited the villa at Hauptstrasse 6 in Bad Honnef . He did his doctorate with Rudolph Fittig at the University of Strasbourg . He then moved to the University of Bonn , where he completed his habilitation in 1889 , then was taken on as a private lecturer and from 1897 as a titular professor. He was later appointed as the successor to Ludwig Claisen as professor for organic chemistry at the Technical University of Aachen , where he taught until his retirement in 1923.
Bredt 's rule , published by Bredt in 1924 , is named after Bredt , according to which there cannot be a double bond on a bridgehead atom of a bicyclic compound due to the ring tension that then occurs . Bredt was the first to describe the structure of camphor and was the editor of the journal Journal for practical chemistry for many years . In 1936 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina Scholars' Academy .
For his services, Bredt was awarded a doctorate by the University of Bonn in 1925. med. E. h. and from RWTH Aachen to Dr. Ing. E. h. appointed. His adopted daughter Maria Lipp , b. Bredt-Savelsberg, later on as a chemist also focused on the subject of camphor. She was the first doctoral student, professor and full professor at the TH Aachen.
Bredt was buried in the old cemetery in Bad Honnef.
literature
- Berthold Peter Anft: Bredt, Konrad Julius. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1955, ISBN 3-428-00183-4 , p. 568 ( digitized version ).
Web links
- Literature by and about Julius Bredt in the catalog of the German National Library
- Hints
Individual evidence
- ^ Konrad Julius Bredt , heidermanns.net
- ↑ Horst Heidermann: The Wuppertal Villas and Apartments - Searching for Traces on the Rhine (PDF; 1.9 MB). (No longer available online.) In: Geschichte im Wuppertal, Jg. 20, 2011, p. 34. Archived from the original ; accessed on November 29, 2018 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bredt, Julius |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Bredt, Konrad Julius |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German chemist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 29, 1855 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 21, 1937 |
| Place of death | Aachen |