Hans Hübner (13 October 1837, in
Düsseldorf
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– 4 July 1884, in
Göttingen
Göttingen (, , ; nds, Chöttingen) is a university city in Lower Saxony, central Germany, the capital of the eponymous district. The River Leine runs through it. At the end of 2019, the population was 118,911.
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The ori ...
) was a German
chemist
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. He was the son of painter
Julius Hübner
Rudolf Julius Benno Hübner (27 January 1806 – 7 November 1882) was a German historical painter of the Düsseldorf school of painting. He was also known as a poet and the father of Emil Hübner, a distinguished classical scholar.
Lif ...
(1806–1882).
He studied chemistry at the
University of Göttingen
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, receiving his doctorate in 1859 with a dissertation on
acrolein. Following graduation, he continued his education at the
University of Heidelberg
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with
Robert Bunsen
Robert Wilhelm Eberhard Bunsen (;
30 March 1811
– 16 August 1899) was a German chemist. He investigated emission spectra of heated elements, and discovered caesium (in 1860) and rubidium (in 1861) with the physicist Gustav Kirchhoff. The Bu ...
and at the
University of Ghent
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under
August Kekulé
Friedrich August Kekulé, later Friedrich August Kekule von Stradonitz ( , ; 7 September 1829 – 13 July 1896), was a German organic chemist. From the 1850s until his death, Kekulé was one of the most prominent chemists in Europe, especially ...
. In 1863 he obtained his
habilitation at Göttingen, where from 1864 he worked as an assistant at the institute of chemistry under
Friedrich Wöhler. In 1870 he became an associate professor, followed by a full professorship in 1874. In 1882 he succeeded Wöhler as director of the chemistry institute at the university.
[Hübner, Hans]
at Neue Deutsche Biographie
With
Friedrich Konrad Beilstein
Friedrich Konrad Beilstein (russian: Фёдор Фёдорович Бейльштейн) (17 February 183818 October 1906), was a Russian chemist and founder of the famous ''Handbuch der organischen Chemie'' (''Handbook of Organic Chemistry''). T ...
and
Rudolph Fittig
Wilhelm Rudolph Fittig (6 December 183519 November 1910) was a German chemist. He discovered the pinacol coupling reaction, mesitylene, diacetyl and biphenyl. Fittig studied the action of sodium on ketones and hydrocarbons. He discovered the Fi ...
, he was editor of the journal ''Zeitschrift für Chemie'' (1865–71).
Handbuch der organischen Chemie, Volume 1
by F.K. Beilstein
Selected writings
* 1870 : ''Über die Stellung der Wasserstoffatome im Benzol'' (with J. Alsberg).
* 1871 : ''Untersuchungen über Glycerin- und Alkylverbindungen und ihre gegenseitigen Beziehungen'' (with Karl Müller).
* 1873 : ''Über isomere Dinitrophenole'' (with Werner Schneider).
* 1873 : ''Über Bromtoluole und Verhalten ihrer Wasserstoffatome'' (with J. Post).
* 1879 : ''Nitrosalicylsäuren und die Isomerien der Benzolabkömmlinge''.
* 1881 : ''Anhydroverbindungen''.[
]
References
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1837 births
1884 deaths
Scientists from Düsseldorf
University of Göttingen alumni
Academic staff of the University of Göttingen
19th-century German chemists