Julius von Braun (chemist)

Julius Jacob von Braun (born July 26, 1875 in Warsaw ; died January 8, 1939 in Heidelberg ) was a German chemist.

Life

Julius Braun was born as the son of the doctor Johannes von Braun and the Jewish Alexandra Rosenblut. He passed his matriculation examination in 1893 at the humanistic grammar school in Warsaw. He then studied chemistry at the University of Göttingen , the Royal Technical University of Charlottenburg and the University of Munich . In Göttingen he received his doctorate in 1898 under Otto Wallach .

In 1898 he became an assistant at the Chemical Institute in Göttingen, and in 1902 private lecturer . In 1909 he became an associate professor at the University of Breslau . In 1915 he registered as a war volunteer, from 1915 he was head of administration of the General Government of Warsaw . Between 1918 and 1921 he was a professor at the Agricultural University in Berlin , in 1921 he moved to the University of Frankfurt am Main as a full professor of chemistry .

In 1935 he was dismissed as a Jew under the Law Restoring the Civil Service . He then founded a chemical research facility in Heidelberg .

Braun had married in 1903 and the couple had four children.

Several of the reactions he discovered bear his name, such as the Rosenmund-von-Braun reaction and the Von-Braun reaction .

Reichs Handbuch der Deutschen Gesellschaft - The handbook of personalities in words and pictures . First volume, Deutscher Wirtschaftsverlag, Berlin 1930, ISBN 3-598-30664-4

Renate Heuer , Siegbert Wolf (ed.): The Jews of the Frankfurt University . Campus Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1997, ISBN 3-593-35502-7 , p. 40 f .

↑ biographical data, publications and Academic pedigree of Julius von Braun at academictree.org, accessed on 14 January 2018th

personal data
SURNAME	Braun, Julius of
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Braun, Julius Jacob von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German chemist
DATE OF BIRTH	July 26, 1875
PLACE OF BIRTH	Warsaw
DATE OF DEATH	January 8, 1939
Place of death	Heidelberg