Richard Godeffroy

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Richard Godeffroy ( Carte Cabinet by Dr. Székely, Vienna around 1879)

Richard Max Victor Godeffroy (born August 26, 1847 in Vienna ; † October 22, 1895 there ) was an Austrian chemist .

biography

He came from the Huguenot family Godeffroy , which had excelled in shipping and overseas trade. His grandfather moved from Hamburg to Austria. His mother, Gabrielle, was born du Rieux .

After attending the Schottengymnasium , he studied pharmacy at the universities of Vienna and Giessen until 1868. From 1870 he was assistant at the University of Vienna and from 1871 head of the pharmaceutical school of the Viennese main pharmacists' committee. From 1872 onwards, he published the results of studies on the analysis of medicines and mineral waters every year. In 1876 he received his doctorate with Heinrich Will at the University of Giessen with the thesis Determination of the atomic weight of cesium and rubidium to the Dr. phil. In 1879/80 Wilhelm Exner won it for the project of the newly founded Technological Trade Museum in Vienna. He became a co-founder of the section for dyeing, bleaching, printing and finishing , which later became the section for the chemical industry , where he taught as a professor.

Godeffroy devoted himself to the chemical technology of wood, developed a new process for black staining and made attempts at wood pulp paper production. He was also the founder and first chairman of the laboratory of the General Austrian Pharmacists' Association.

He married Adelheid Ottilie Augustine Hrdlicka from Timisoara , who had studied piano with Theodor Leschetizky . Her daughter, Ottilie Helene Angela Godeffroy (1880–1971) became an actress, from 1899 under the name Tilla Durieux . Richard Godeffroy fell ill with cancer and had to give up his job in early 1895.

Publications

  • About synthetic butter , page 146-150, in communications from the pharmaceutic school in Vienna, 1877
  • Studies of the Microscopic Reactions of the China Alkaloids ; 1878
  • Compendium of Pharmacy. Chemical-Pharmaceutical Science of Preparations with consideration of the Pharmacopoea Austriaca, Hungarica, Germanica and the Austrian Military Pharmacopoeia ; Vienna, Perles, 1882
  • Some new wood stains ; 1883
  • About the quantitative determination of the wood pulp in the paper ; 1888, 1889, 1891
  • Some statistical data on the mineral and medicinal springs of Europe ; 1892

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Entry on Richard Godeffroy in the Austria Forum  (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon )
  2. ↑ Richard Godeffroy. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 2, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1959, p. 14.
  3. ↑ The KK Technological Trade Museum ... at archive.org
personal data
SURNAME Godeffroy, Richard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Godeffroy, Richard Max Victor (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian chemist
DATE OF BIRTH August 26, 1847
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH October 22, 1895
Place of death Vienna