Oswald Hesse
Oswald Hesse (born May 17, 1835 in Obereula near Deutschenbora , Saxony, † February 10, 1917 in Feuerbach ) was Dr. phil., councilor, chemist and director of the Friedrich Jobst company , the first industrial factory in Feuerbach.
When visiting the agricultural college in Chemnitz, the pharmacist Carl Friedrich Reichel asked him to do research on his large collection of cinchona bark.
Hesse then studied chemistry in Leipzig and Göttingen from 1856 to 1860 , where he did his doctorate with Heinrich Limpricht with a study on quinones . At Jobst he had the opportunity to research the alkaloids of a variety of drugs. In 1888, Hesse was elected a member of the Leopoldina . In 1909 he became an honorary citizen of Feuerbach and in 1916 an honorary member of the Association for Patriotic Natural History in Württemberg .
literature
- Grete Ronge: Hesse, Oswald. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 9, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1972, ISBN 3-428-00190-7 , p. 20 f. ( Digitized version ).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Oswald Hesse's membership entry at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on March 11, 2016.
- ^ Honorary members of the Association for Patriotic Natural History in Württemberg
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hesse, Oswald |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German chemist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 17, 1835 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Obereula near Deutschenbora |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 10, 1917 |
| Place of death | Feuerbach |