Julius Löwe (chemist)
Julius Friedrich Ferdinand Löwe (born August 8, 1823 in Mannheim ; † 1909 ) was a German chemist.
Lion came from the family of actors Leo and grew up in Frankfurt. He was a student of Justus von Liebig at the University of Giessen . There he began to study chemistry in 1847 and received his doctorate in 1852. In his dissertation he dealt with hippuric acid . Löwe founded an analytical-chemical laboratory in Frankfurt am Main.
He published a lot on analytical chemistry. In 1872 he presented the yellow dye from tanner sumac in its pure form for the first time . Sumac was then used to tan leather.
In 1868 he produced ellagic acid by heating gallic acid with arsenic acid and silver oxide. Gallic acid was also used for silvering textiles at that time.
He was the godfather of the photographer Julius Neubronner .
Individual evidence
- ^ Obituary in the annual reports of the Physikalischer Verein Frankfurt 1909
- ↑ Georg Schwedt, Liebig und seine Schüler, Springer 2002, p. 271
- ^ Nathan Birnbaum, Jews as Inventors and Discoverers, Berlin-Wilmersdorf 1913, p. 112
- ↑ Löwe, Ueber the formation of ellagic acid from gallic acid, Journal für Praktische Chemie, Volume 103, 1868, pp. 464-471
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| SURNAME | Leo, Julius |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Leo, Julius Friedrich Ferdinand (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German chemist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 8, 1823 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Mannheim |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1909 |