Wilhelm Suida (chemist)

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Wilhelm Suida (born September 10, 1853 in Wekelsdorf , Bohemia ; † March 31, 1922 in Mödling , Lower Austria ) was an Austrian chemist and university professor . He was rector of the Vienna University of Technology .

Life

Wilhelm Suida first attended the German secondary school in Prague. From 1870 to 1872 he studied chemistry at the Eidgenössisches Polytechnikum Zürich under Johannes Wislicenus, among others . This was followed by studies at the German Technical University in Prague . From 1874 he worked under Ernst Ludwig in the laboratory of the Vienna Commercial Academy , from the autumn of 1874 he was assistant at the chair for animal physiology and animal breeding at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences in Vienna . In 1876 he received his doctorate with a thesis on the behavior of iron oxides at high temperatures to Dr. phil. at the University of Budapest, in 1877 he worked with Adolf von Baeyer in Munich, where he conducted research on the condensation of aldehydes with phenols and on indole . From 1878 to 1881 he worked at the chemical-pathological laboratory of the Vienna General Hospital and from 1881 to 1885 as an adjunct at the Technological Trade Museum . In 1882 he qualified as a professor for chemistry of aromatic compounds at the Technical University of Vienna.

From 1885 he was employed in the artistic artelier of the kk finance ministry and the kk court and state printing works. Among other things, he developed colors for postage and postage stamps as well as stamps that could not be removed again after sticking without traces of color.

In 1891 he became associate professor, in 1902 full professor of chemical technology of organic substances at the Vienna University of Technology. In the academic years 1908/09 and 1909/10 he was dean of the chemical-technical college, in the academic year 1911/12 he was elected rector of the Vienna University of Technology . During his rectorate, the second general Austrian rectors' conference took place at the Vienna University of Technology in 1912 . In addition, the establishment of a sub-department for shipbuilding at the mechanical engineering school was approved.

From 1912 he was an honorary member of the Association des Chimistes coloristes and from 1913 to 1922 specialist consultant for the Technical Museum for Industry and Commerce. In 1915 he was appointed councilor .

Wilhelm Suida died in 1922 at the age of 68. His son Hermann Suida was also a chemist and took over his chair after the death of Wilhelm Suida. Together with Louis Liechti, Wilhelm Suida researched the chemistry of pickling and examined the dyes Turkish red oil and aniline black . Under the guidance of Suida, his student Paul Gelmo discovered sulfonamides in 1906 .

Publications (selection)

  • 1881 (together with Julius Mauthner ): About brominated propionic acids and acrylic acids
  • 1896 (together with Julius Mauthner): Contributions to the knowledge of cholesterol , meeting reports of the Imperial Academy of Sciences Vienna, mathematical and natural science class, volume 105, department 2b, Vienna, Kk Hof- und Staatsdruckerei
  • 1905: On the influence of the active atomic groups in the textile fibers on the occurrence of dyeings , meeting reports of the Imperial Academy of Sciences Vienna, mathematical and natural science class, Volume 114, Department 2b, Vienna, Kk Hof- und Staatsdruckerei
  • 1906: Studies on the causes of the coloring of animal fibers , Hoppe-Seyler's Zeitschrift für Physiologische Chemie , Volume 50, Issue 2 and 3, Trübner-Verlag, Strasbourg
  • 1906 (together with Paul Gelmo): Studies on the processes involved in dyeing animal textile fibers , meeting reports of the Imperial Academy of Sciences Vienna, mathematical and natural science class, volume 115, department IIb, Vienna, Kk Hof- und Staatsdruckerei
  • 1907 (together with F. Glassner): About the causes of the discoloration of colored liquids by different coals , Justus Liebig's Annalen der Chemie , 357th volume, Leipzig
  • 1915 (together with W. Siegmund): Oil hardening without overpressure using nickel and its compounds as catalysts , Journal for practical chemistry, Volume 91, Barth-Verlag, Leipzig
  • 1911: Large-scale organic chemical industry in the service of human welfare. Inaugural address by the rector of the kk technical university in Vienna , elected for 1911/12 , published by the kk technical university, Vienna

literature

personal data
SURNAME Suida, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian chemist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH September 10, 1853
PLACE OF BIRTH Wekelsdorf , Bohemia
DATE OF DEATH March 31, 1922
Place of death Mödling , Lower Austria