Karl von Auwers

Karl Auwers in 1909 when he was admitted to the Leopoldina

Karl Friedrich von Auwers (born September 16, 1863 in Gotha ; † May 3, 1939 in Marburg ) was a German chemist . The Auwers reaction and the Auwers-Skita rule are named after him.

Life

Karl von Auwers was the son of the astronomer Arthur von Auwers and his wife Marie Henriette Jacobi (1837–1915) . He studied chemistry at the Universities of Heidelberg (1881–1882) and Berlin (1882–1885), where he received his doctorate in 1885 under AW von Hofmann . After a short assistantship at Hofmann, he switched to Victor Meyer in Göttingen in 1887 and followed him in 1889 as a private assistant to do his habilitation in Heidelberg . After his habilitation in 1890 he was appointed associate professor in Heidelberg in 1894.

In 1900 he accepted the position as the successor to the retired Heinrich Limpricht at the University of Greifswald . From 1907 he was able to move into the new institute built according to his ideas.

In 1913 he received his last appointment to succeed the retired Theodor Zincke in Marburg . His successor in Greifswald was Otto Dimroth . He headed the Marburg Chemical Institute until his retirement in 1928.

Auwers' most important works were studies on stereochemistry and work on heterocycle chemistry. He also dealt extensively with isomerism (where the Auwers-Skita rule is named after him and Aladar Skita ), spectrochemistry and the determination of the constitution of organic compounds . The Auwers reaction (see also anthocyanidins ) generates flavonols from coumarones by adding a ring .

He married Elisabeth Pauline Cäcilie Koch on April 8, 1893 in Trier . The couple had two children, including the physicist Otto von Auwers .

Awards

In 1909 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina Scholars' Academy . In 1912 his father Arthur Auwers was ennobled. He became Dr. Ing. Eh of the Technical University in Dresden (1926) and Vice President of the German Chemical Society. He was also appointed a secret councilor.

literature

Friedrich Klemm : Auwers, Karl Friedrich von. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 1, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1953, ISBN 3-428-00182-6 , p. 463 ( digitized version ).
Hans Meerwein : Karl von Auwers 1863-1939 , in: Reports of the German Chemical Society 72 (7): A111 – A121 (1939) doi : 10.1002 / cber.19390720730
Christoph Meinel : Chemistry at the University of Marburg since the beginning of the 19th century: A contribution to its development as a university subject (Marburg: Elwert, 1978)

Web links

Commons : Karl von Auwers - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Literature by and about Karl von Auwers in the catalog of the German National Library
University of Marburg, p. 20 (PDF; 1.5 MB)

Individual evidence

↑ Life data, publications and academic family tree of Karl Friedrich von Auwers at academictree.org, accessed on January 1, 2018.
^ Winfried R. Pötsch, Annelore Fischer and Wolfgang Müller with the collaboration of Heinz Cassebaum : Lexicon of important chemists . Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig 1988, p. 21, ISBN 3-323-00185-0 .
^ University of Greifswald historical mentions ( memento from February 20, 2012 in the Internet Archive )

personal data
SURNAME	Auwers, Karl von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Auwers, Karl Friedrich von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German chemist
DATE OF BIRTH	September 16, 1863
PLACE OF BIRTH	Gotha
DATE OF DEATH	May 3, 1939
Place of death	Marburg

[1] Life data, publications and academic family tree of Karl Friedrich von Auwers at academictree.org, accessed on January 1, 2018.

[Pötsch-2] Winfried R. Pötsch, Annelore Fischer and Wolfgang Müller with the collaboration of Heinz Cassebaum : Lexicon of important chemists . Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig 1988, p. 21, ISBN 3-323-00185-0 .

[3] University of Greifswald historical mentions ( memento from February 20, 2012 in the Internet Archive )