Adolf Lieben (3 December 1836 – 6 June 1914) was an

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. He was born in

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the son of Ignatz Lieben. He studied at the

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(

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1856 with

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), and

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, and subsequently held the positions of privat-docent at the

(1861), and professor in the universities of

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(1863),

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(1867), and

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(1871). From 1875 until his death he held the chair of general and pharmacological chemistry at the University of Vienna, and is a member of the Vienna Academy of Sciences.

Publications

Lieben has published many essays in '' Liebig's Annalen der Chemie'': *"Ueber die Einwirkung schwacher Affinitäten auf Aldehyde," 1861; *"Ueber das Iodbenzol," 1869; *"Ueber festes Benzoylchlorid," 1875; etc., *"Sitzungsberichte den Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien" ("Untersuchungen über Milchzucker," "Einwirkung von Cyangas auf Aldehyde," "Ueber den Formaldehyd und dessen Umwandlung in Methylalkohl," "Reduction des Exotonchlorals," etc.), *"Monatshefte für Chemie," *"Comptes-Rendus de l'Académie de Paris," *"

Berichte der Deutschen Chemischen Gesellschaft ''Chemische Berichte'' (usually abbreviated as ''Ber.'' or ''Chem. Ber.'') was a German-language scientific journal of all disciplines of chemistry founded in 1868. It was one of the oldest scientific journals in chemistry, until it merged with ' ...

, Berlin," *"

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, Palermo," etc.

References

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