Oskar Piloty
Oskar Piloty (born April 30, 1866 in Munich ; † October 6, 1915 near Sommepy , Département Marne ) was a German chemist .
Piloty came from a family of artists, his father was the painter Carl Theodor von Piloty . The brother Robert Piloty was a law professor at the University of Würzburg . He studied chemistry in Munich with Adolf von Baeyer and did his doctorate with Emil Fischer in Würzburg, which he then followed to Berlin. In 1899 he became a professor of inorganic chemistry in Munich and thus a colleague of his father-in-law Adolf von Baeyer. After one of his sons was killed in World War I, he volunteered for the front and died in Champagne in 1915 .
The field of work Pilotys was initially the carbohydrate chemistry (sugar chemistry), later the chemistry of the natural pyrrole derivatives . Piloty's acid (N-hydroxy-benzenesulfonamide) is named after him.
Piloty was close to the George circle and was friends with the writer and translator Karl Wolfskehl . Both were avid book collectors. The Piloty collection was publicly auctioned off in 1918 in the Munich antiquarian bookshop by Emil Hirsch (antiquarian) .
He married Eugenie von Baeyer (1869–1952) in Munich in 1892 , a daughter of his academic teacher Adolf von Baeyer. The couple had five children, including the engineer Hans Piloty (1894–1969).
literature
- Claus Priesner: Piloty, Oskar. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 20, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-428-00201-6 , p. 446 ( digitized version ).
swell
- Chemist's Biographies: Oskar Piloty
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Piloty, Oskar |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German chemist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 30, 1866 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Munich |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 6, 1915 |
| Place of death | near Sommepy , Département Marne |