Richard Kothe
Richard Kothe (born January 13, 1863 in Leipzig , † June 12, 1925 in Salzburg ) was a German chemist.
Kothe studied chemistry in Leipzig with Johannes Wislicenus , received his doctorate there in 1887 (on new syntheses of dialkyl phthalides) and was then his assistant for a few years. In 1891 he joined Farbwerke Bayer in Elberfeld (later Leverkusen) and stayed there on a vacation trip until his death from a stroke.
Together with his friend Oskar Dressel, Kothe developed numerous synthetic colors at Bayer and, following the expansion of the laboratory's research program, also turned to drug development under the impression of Paul Ehrlich's successes . In 1916 he and Oskar Dressel synthesized a substance (Bayer 205, Suramin) at the Bayer Farbwerke in the central laboratory headed by Bernhard Heymann , which was later used as a Germanin against sleeping sickness.
In 1924 he received the Adolf von Baeyer Memorial Coin with Oskar Dressel and Bernhard Heymann . He received an honorary doctorate from the Medical Faculty of the University of Leipzig.
literature
- M. Bodenstein: Meeting of October 19, 1925. In: Reports of the German Chemical Society. 58, 1925, p. 35, doi : 10.1002 / cber.19250581040 . (Obituary by Dressel)
- Horst-Bernd Dünschede: Tropical medicine research at Bayer, Düsseldorf 1971
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kothe, Richard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German chemist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 13, 1863 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Leipzig |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 12, 1925 |
| Place of death | Salzburg |