Richard Heart
Richard Herz (born July 21, 1867 in Weilburg , † November 18, 1936 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German chemist.
Life
Herz was the son of a businessman, graduated from high school in Gießen and studied chemistry from 1886 at the University of Heidelberg, the TH Berlin-Charlottenburg and the University of Berlin, where he received his doctorate from Carl Liebermann in 1891 with a dissertation on triphenylamine. Afterwards he was briefly at the University of Rostock, where he was assistant to August Michaelis even before his doctorate and was concerned with the then new sulfur-containing organic compounds (thionylamines), and from 1892 at the A. Leonhardt and Co. in Mühlheim am Main . In 1895 he moved to the Levinstein company (from Ivan Levinstein ) in Manchester . There he met Arthur von Weinberg in a patent disputewho brought him to the Cassella Farbwerke Mainkur company in 1899 , where Weinberg used him in the development of sulfur dyes . By then Henri Raymond Vidal in France (Vidal-Black) been successful, but Weinberg could not pull his company this and therefore sought other ways. Herz developed new sulfur dyes such as Immedial Pure Blue and Hydron Blue and thus contributed greatly to the company's success in this area. In 1918 he received power of attorney , in 1925 he became deputy director of Cassella and in 1931 he retired.
The heart reaction is named after him.
literature
- Winfried R. Pötsch (lead), Annelore Fischer, Wolfgang Müller: Lexicon of important chemists , Harri Deutsch 1989, ISBN 3-8171-1055-3 , p. 200.
Web links
- Literature by and about Richard Herz in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Heart, Richard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German chemist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 21, 1867 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Weilburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 18, 1936 |
| Place of death | Frankfurt am Main |