Heinrich Limpricht (21 April 1827 – 13 May 1909) was a German chemist. Limpricht was a pupil of
Friedrich Wöhler; he worked on the chemistry of
furans and
pyrroles, discovering furan in 1870.
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In 1852 he became lecturer and in 1855 extraordinary professor at the
University of Göttingen
The University of Göttingen, officially the Georg August University of Göttingen, (german: Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, known informally as Georgia Augusta) is a public research university in the city of Göttingen, Germany. Founded ...
. In 1860, he became ordinary professor at the Institute for Organic Chemistry at the
University of Greifswald
The University of Greifswald (; german: Universität Greifswald), formerly also known as “Ernst-Moritz-Arndt University of Greifswald“, is a public research university located in Greifswald, Germany, in the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pom ...
. His oldest daughter Marie (1856-1925) married in 1875 to Protestant theologian
Julius Wellhausen.
Rudolph Fittig and
Hans von Pechmann
Hans von Pechmann (1 April 1850 – 19 April 1902) was a German chemist, renowned for his discovery of diazomethane in 1894. Pechmann condensation and Pechmann pyrazole synthesis. He also first prepared 1,2-diketones (e.g., diacetyl), acetonedic ...
were two of Limpricht's notable pupils.
References
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* Gerda Schneider: ''Heinrich Limpricht und sein Schülerkreis (1827-1909)''; Diss. Greifswald 1970
Genealogy database entry by Vera V. Mainz and Gregory S. Girolami 1998*
1827 births
1909 deaths
19th-century German chemists
People from Eutin
People from Oldenburg (state)
University of Göttingen alumni
University of Göttingen faculty
University of Greifswald faculty
Members of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities
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