Julius Wilbrand

Wilbrand in June 1863

Julius Bernhard Friedrich Adolph Wilbrand (born August 22, 1839 in Gießen , † June 22, 1906 in Bielefeld) was a German chemist . Wilbrand was the son of the physician Julius Franz Joseph Wilbrand (1811-1894) and Albertine Knapp (1817-1892).

From 1858 he studied law and chemistry at the University of Giessen and received his doctorate in 1861. phil. As a student he joined the Giessen Wingolf . He then worked at the University of Göttingen with Friedrich Konrad Beilstein and in 1863 was the first to describe the synthesis of symmetrical trinitrotoluene (TNT).

He later worked as a chemistry teacher in Hildesheim . In the local cholera - epidemic in 1867 he was a member of the disinfection Commission and reported it.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Family Archive Family Wilbrand , Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt O13, no. 139 .
2. ↑ [1]
3. ^ J. Wilbrand: Note on trinitrotoluene. In: Annalen der Chemie und Pharmacie 128 , 178 (1863) , doi : 10.1002 / jlac.18631280206 .
4. ^ G. Carlton Smith: TNT. Trinitrotoluenes and Mono- and Dinitrotoluenes, Their Manufacture and Properties , New York 1918, pp. 17-18.
5. ↑ Julius Wilbrand: Hildesheim's cholera and typhus conditions and the disinfection of the city during the cholera epidemic of 1867 , Hildesheim 1868.