Vojtěch Šafařík
Vojtěch Šafařík (officially: Šafárik ; also Adalbert Šafařík ; * October 26, 1829 , † July 2, 1902 ) was a Czech chemist of Slovak origin; he wrote his works in German and Czech.
Life
Pavel Jozef Šafárik's son studied chemistry in Prague, Berlin and Göttingen. He was one of the students of Friedrich Wöhler and Justus von Liebig , with whom he also worked. In 1869 he was appointed professor of chemistry at the Czech Polytechnic, and in 1882 the first professor of chemistry at Charles University in Prague . From 1872 he wrote as an editor for the first Czech chemical journal Zprávy Spolku chemiků českých .
Towards the end of his life he devoted himself exclusively to astronomy.
plant
In Göttingen he was involved in the research of diethyl magnesium , worked on the chemical composition of platinum catalysis , vanadium , and organmetallic compounds ( Grignard compounds ). At the Vienna Academy he published a paper on the physical properties of substances.
From 1859 he took part in the chemical analysis of the authenticity of the Grünberger manuscript and came to the conclusion that it was a forgery.
In addition to chemistry, he dealt with mineralogy .
In 1860 Safarik published the first university textbook Základové chemie čili lučby and participated in chemical terminology in the Czech language . He improved the nomenclature of the chemists Jan Svatopluk Presl and Josef Jungmann .
Fonts
- Mineralogical-chemical reports on recent occurrences in Bohemia
- Základové chemistry (1878) (unfinished)
- About the construction of telescopic mirrors according to new principles
literature
- Constantin von Wurzbach : Šafařík, Adalbert . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 28th part. Imperial and Royal Court and State Printing Office, Vienna 1874, p. 49 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Jiří Kořalka : Šafařík Vojtěch. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 9, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1988, ISBN 3-7001-1483-4 , p. 376.
Web links
- Literature and other media by and about Vojtěch Šafařík in the catalog of the National Library of the Czech Republic
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Šafařík, Vojtěch |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Šafárik, Vojtěch; Šafařík, Adalbert |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Czech chemist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 26, 1829 |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 2, 1902 |