Theodor Benckiser

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Theodor Benckiser (born December 3, 1860 in Pforzheim ; † unknown) was a German chemist and manufacturer.

His parents were Alfons Benckiser and Elwira, geb. Kiss; His great-grandfather the entrepreneur Johann Adam Benckiser . In 1885 he did his doctorate in Basel with the work Contributions to the knowledge of quinones and related bodies . Around 1884/85 he worked closely with Rudolf Nietzki in the university laboratory . They proved that the "carbon oxide-potassium" synthesized by Liebig from carbon monoxide and potassium is the hexa-potassium salt of hexahydroxybenzene .

He later became a manufacturer in Ludwigshafen am Rhein .

Publications

  • Contributions to the knowledge of quinones and allied bodies. Birkhäuser, Basel 1885, OCLC 493256988 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Theodor Benckiser ( Memento from November 17, 2005 in the Internet Archive ) at Worldroots
  2. ↑ Benckiser in the Pforzheim-Enz city wiki
  3. ↑ Ludwig Darmstaedter: Handbook on the History of Natural Sciences and Technology 1866 , p. 835 (PDF; 2.9 MB)
personal data
SURNAME Benckiser, Theodor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German chemist and manufacturer
DATE OF BIRTH December 3, 1860
PLACE OF BIRTH Pforzheim
DATE OF DEATH after 1892