Paul Degener

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Paul Otto Ludwig Robert Degener (born February 25, 1851 in Braunschweig , † July 20, 1901 in Stolberg ) was a German pharmacist and chemist .

Life

Paul Degener was born in Braunschweig in 1851. He attended high school in Helmstedt and then completed an apprenticeship as a pharmacist in Eisfeld . Subsequently he worked as a pharmacist's assistant in Stade until 1874 . He studied chemistry and pharmacy in Leipzig from 1874 to 1877 . He then worked at the Botanical Institute there and in the sugar industry . In 1880 he became head of the laboratory of the Association for the Beet Sugar Industry of the German Reich . From 1884 Degener read as a private lecturer at the University of Berlin and from 1889 at the Technical University of Braunschweig . He was considered a specialist in sugar chemistry and wastewater treatment . Degener died in July 1901 at the age of 50 in Stolberg in the southern Harz region .

Fonts (selection)

  • About the action of melting alkalis on some aromatic sulfonic acids . Metzger & Wittig, Leipzig 1879. (Dissertation)
  • Purification of sewage . 1899.

literature

personal data
SURNAME Degener, Paul
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Degener, Paul Otto Ludwig Robert (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pharmacist and chemist
DATE OF BIRTH February 25, 1851
PLACE OF BIRTH Braunschweig
DATE OF DEATH July 20, 1901
Place of death Stolberg