Leander Dossios

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Leander Dossios ( Greek Λέανδρος Δόσιος , also: Leonidas Dossios ; * 1846 in Athens ; † 1883 ibid) was a Greek chemist .

Life

Leander Dossios studied chemistry in Zurich , first at the ETH , before moving to the university in the winter semester of 1864/65 , and then joined the Corps Rhenania . On July 27, 1866, he was awarded a Dr. phil. chem. PhD.

After graduation he became professor of chemistry in Athens. As a member of the Central Office for Industry, Trade and Agriculture in Athens, his commitment was to the development and expansion of a modern textile industry in Greece. In his scientific work he dealt with the structure of glycols and their oxidation products as well as the theory of solutions . The theory developed by Dossios was based on the views of Rudolf Clausius and is one of the mechanical-physical solution theories.

family

Leander Dossios came from a wealthy and educated family. His father Konstantin Dossios (1810–1871) worked as a lawyer and politician in Greece after studying law in Munich and Heidelberg and social sciences in Vienna . In 1843 he was a delegate in the Greek constituent assembly and in the Greek national assembly from 1862 after the overthrow of King Otto. From February to March 1863 he was Minister for the Church. In the same year he became a member of the Constituent Assembly for the 1864 Constitution.

His mother was the linguist Katharina Dossios geb. Mavrokordatos (1820-1856). She translates George Gordon Byron's The Giaour into Greek.

His brother Aristides Dossios (1844-1881) was a professor of camera and political sciences.

His younger sister Katharina (1856–1935) married the German archaeologist and ambassador Otto Lüders in 1874 .

Fonts

  • Leander Dossios: Theoretical and empirical contributions to the constitution of glycols and their corresponding acids , Zurich 1866.
  • Leander Dossios: On the theory of solutions . In: Quarterly publication of the Natural Research Society in Zurich , 13th year, 1868, pp. 1–20.
  • Lender Dossios, W. Weith: About the solutions of iodine in water and in aqueous iodine potassium . In: Quarterly publication of the Natural Research Society in Zurich , Volume 13, 1868, pp. 258–266

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 150 years of the Corps Rhenania Zurich-Aachen-Braunschweig, 1855–2005 , Braunschweig 2005, p. 308
  2. ^ Matriculation of the University of Zurich, No. 2775, Leander Dossios
  3. ^ Landesarchiv Baden-Württemberg, holdings on Leander Dossios
  4. ↑ Ferdinand Enke: Collection of chemical and chemical-technical lectures , Volume 15, 1909, p. 417
personal data
SURNAME Dossios, Leander
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dossios, Leonidas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Greek chemist
DATE OF BIRTH 1846
PLACE OF BIRTH Athens
DATE OF DEATH 1883
Place of death Athens