Mikhail Alexandrovich Ilyinsky
Mikhail Alexandrovich Ilyinsky ( Russian Михаил Александрович Ильинский * 1. jul. / 13. November 1856 greg. In Moscow ; † 18th November 1941 in Borovoe , Oblast Akmolinsk , Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic ) was a Russian chemist .
Life
Ilyinsky began studying at the St. Petersburg Institute of Technology in 1875, from which he was expelled in 1876 for participating in political activities. He went to Berlin and graduated from the Technical University there in 1882. Until 1883 and - after a short interlude at the University of Münster - 1884/1885 he continued to work at the university with the color chemist Carl Liebermann , the inventor of the alizarin synthesis . He then worked for three years in a Berlin paint factory before he returned to Moscow in 1889 and worked there for 10 years in the Alizarin factory in Shcholkowo near Moscow.
In 1899 Ilyinsky moved back to Germany and headed the laboratory of a chemical factory. When the First World War broke out , he refused to accept German citizenship and was then placed under police supervision. In 1916 he fled to Russia, where he was a private lecturer at Moscow University after the war .
Ilyinsky was one of the pioneers in building up the Russian synthetic dye industry . His contributions to the chemistry and technology of anthraquinones are significant .
From 1935 he was an honorary member of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR .
Web links
- Article Michail Alexandrowitsch Iljinski in the Great Soviet Encyclopedia (BSE) , 3rd edition 1969–1978 (Russian)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ilyinsky, Mikhail Alexandrovich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Ильинский, Михаил Александрович (Russian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian chemist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 13, 1856 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Moscow |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 18, 1941 |
| Place of death | Borovoye , Akmolinsk Oblast , Kazakh SSR |