Karol Dziewoński

Karol Dziewoński (born August 18, 1876 in Jarosław , † December 6, 1943 in Kraków ) was a Polish chemist ( organic chemistry ). He was mainly concerned with dyes.

Dziewonski was the son of a high school teacher and studied at the Polytechnic in Lemberg (Lwów) with a degree as a chemical engineer in 1901. He was there also an assistant for organic chemistry and went after graduation as an assistant at the University of Friborg . For studies on acenaphthenes and their derivatives, he was promoted to Dr. Ing. PhD. In 1904 he became a teacher at the chemistry school in Mulhouse and in 1906 he went to Ivanovo in the dye industry . From 1911 he was professor of organic chemistry at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow. He was also a consultant for a dye company in Łódź and dealt with naphthalene derivatives as dyes. In 1939 he was in Sachsenhausen concentration camp , but came back to Krakow in 1940 and was involved in the underground university. He died in a tram accident in 1943.

From 1924 to 1937 he was chairman of the Krakow section of the Polish Chemical Society. He received the Order of Polonia Restituta (Commander) and the Cross of Merit of the Republic of Poland (1936). In 1919 he became a corresponding and in 1923 full member of the Polish Academy of Sciences. He was also a member of the Warsaw Scientific Society and the Academy of Technical Sciences.

literature

• Winfried R. Pötsch (lead), Annelore Fischer, Wolfgang Müller: Lexicon of important chemists , Harri Deutsch 1989, p. 128