Max Dennstedt

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Max Eugen Hermann Dennstedt (born May 27, 1852 in Berlin , † June 19, 1931 in Matzdorf) was a German chemist .

biography

Dennstedt, the son of a police captain, studied chemistry at the University of Berlin from 1876 to 1878 and received his doctorate there in 1879 under August Wilhelm Hofmann . From 1883 he was a private lecturer at the University of Rome , where he worked for Cannizzaro and Ciamician in the field of pyrrole chemistry and completed his habilitation. From 1885 to 1890 he taught chemistry as an honorary teacher, regular teacher (1887) and professor (1889) at the United Artillery and Engineering School in Berlin. In 1893 he took over the management of the State Chemical Laboratory at the University of Hamburg . He also worked as a forensic court expert and is considered one of the pioneers of photographic applications in judicial evidence. After completing his research on pyrrole, he dealt with analytical chemistry and achieved great research successes in the field of elemental analysis of organic compounds . In 1910 he retired for health reasons.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Wolfgang Walter. History and development of the chemistry department at the University of Hamburg (1613-1994) ( Memento of the original from December 12, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , University of Hamburg, Department of Chemistry. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.chemie.uni-hamburg.de
  2. ^ Anton Holzer: Editorial in Photo History , Issue 94 , 2004.
personal data
SURNAME Dennstedt, Max
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dennstedt, Max Eugen Hermann; Dennstedt, Maximilian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German chemist
DATE OF BIRTH May 27, 1852
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH June 19, 1931
Place of death Matzdorf