Ludwig Gattermann

L. Gattermann around 1915

obituary

Friedrich August Ludwig Gattermann (born April 20, 1860 in Goslar , † June 20, 1920 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) was a German chemist .

Life

Ludwig Gattermann studied chemistry in Leipzig, Heidelberg and Berlin. He was at the University of Göttingen in the group of Hans Hübner with the work over some derivatives of m-nitro-p-toluidine doctorate and followed Victor Meyer as an assistant to Heidelberg. In 1900 he was appointed professor of chemistry at the natural science faculty of the University of Freiburg . As the successor to Adolf Claus, he investigated both the chemistry of aromatic hydrocarbons and that of unstable inorganic compounds such as trichloramine . Among other things, he found out that cigarettes taste different in the presence of hydrogen cyanide.

The Gattermann synthesis and the Gattermann-Koch synthesis are named after him . He became known above all for his frequently reissued textbook on the practice of organic chemistry , also known as Gattermann's cookbook . In 1888 Gattermann was appointed a member of the Leopoldina . In 1909 he became an extraordinary member of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences .

Works

Gattermann original edition 1894

The practice of the organic chemist , Verlag von Veit & Comp. Leipzig, 1st edition. 1894
- 2nd edition - Leipzig: Veit, 1896. Digitized edition
- 11th edition - Leipzig: Veit, 1912
- 15th edition - Berlin: De Gruyter, 1920. Digitized edition of the University and State Library Düsseldorf
- continued by Heinrich Wieland and Theodor Wieland up to the 43rd edition 1982; ISBN 3-11-006654-8 .
Table for calculating the volumetric nitrogen determinations . - Leipzig: Veit, 1906. Digitized edition

literature

Berthold Peter Anft: Gattermann, Friedrich August Ludwig. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 6, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1964, ISBN 3-428-00187-7 , p. 91 ( digitized version ).
Horst-Rüdiger Jarck, Günter Scheel (Ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon. 19th and 20th centuries , Hannover 1996, p. 199

Web links

Literature by and about Ludwig Gattermann in the catalog of the German National Library
Works by and about Ludwig Gattermann in the German Digital Library

Individual evidence

↑ Life data, publications and academic family tree of Ludwig Gattermann at academictree.org, accessed on February 7, 2018.
^ Louis Fieser, Mary Fieser: Organische Chemie , Verlag Chemie Weinheim, 2nd edition, 1972, p. 835, ISBN 3-527-25075-1 .
↑ Heinrich Kiliani was in charge of chemistry in the neighboring medical faculty . The chemistry chairs of both faculties were only combined under Wieland in 1922 . (Source: Obituary H. Kiliani 1949).

^ Clayden, Greeves, Warren, Wothers ,: Organic Chemistry, Oxford University Press 2006, p. 574.

^ Biographies at the Royal Society of Chemistry .

^ Members of the HAdW since it was founded in 1909. Ludwig Gattermann. Heidelberg Academy of Sciences, accessed on July 5, 2016 .

personal data
SURNAME	Gattermann, Ludwig
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Gattermann, Friedrich August Ludwig (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German chemist
DATE OF BIRTH	April 20, 1860
PLACE OF BIRTH	Goslar
DATE OF DEATH	June 20, 1920
Place of death	Freiburg in Breisgau

[1] Life data, publications and academic family tree of Ludwig Gattermann at academictree.org, accessed on February 7, 2018.

[Fieser-2] Louis Fieser, Mary Fieser: Organische Chemie , Verlag Chemie Weinheim, 2nd edition, 1972, p. 835, ISBN 3-527-25075-1 .

[3] Heinrich Kiliani was in charge of chemistry in the neighboring medical faculty . The chemistry chairs of both faculties were only combined under Wieland in 1922 . (Source: Obituary H. Kiliani 1949).

[4] Clayden, Greeves, Warren, Wothers ,: Organic Chemistry, Oxford University Press 2006, p. 574.

[5] Biographies at the Royal Society of Chemistry .

[6] Members of the HAdW since it was founded in 1909. Ludwig Gattermann. Heidelberg Academy of Sciences, accessed on July 5, 2016 .