Jakub Natanson (20 August 1832 – 14 September 1884) was a
Polish chemist and
banker, one of the discoverers of
Fuchsine. He wrote the first textbook on organic chemistry in the Polish language.
Life
He was born 20 August 1832 in
Warsaw as the son of a banker. From 1852 to 1856 he studied chemistry at the
Universität Dorpat
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Estonia) with a master’s degree in 1856, where he synthesized fuchsine in the master’s thesis (published in
Liebigs Annalen). He then trained from 1858 to 1862 in Germany, France and Great Britain with leading chemists and in 1862 became Professor of Chemistry at the ''Szkoła Główna Warszawska'' in Warsaw. In 1856 he found two new
urea syntheses.
He gave up his professorship in 1866 to join the family bank (
Bank Handlowy, today after the merger citi-Handlowy.) He was in the management of various companies (with interests in coal mining, paper, sugar, railroad) and founded, among others, the industrial and agricultural museum (1875).
He died on 14 September 1884 in
Warsaw and was buried in the
Okopowa Street Jewish Cemetery.
Literature
Professor Jakub Natanson is mentioned in several books:
Jakub Natanson, by Edmund Trepka, 1955(in English)
*Winfried R. Pötsch, Annelore Fischer, Wolfgang Müller: Lexikon bedeutender Chemiker (en: ''Lexicon of eminent chemists'' ) .
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Overview
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, Frankfurt am Main/Thun 1989,
The Polish Biographical dictionary, 1905Celia S. Heller, On the Edge of Destruction -Jews of Poland between the Two World Wars
(p. 36)
*Henryk Kroszczor: Jewish Cemetery in Warsaw. Warsaw: Państwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe, 1983, p. 20.
"Jakub Natanson." The Great Soviet Encyclopedia, 3rd Edition. 1970-1979. The Gale Group, Inc. 25 Nov. 2021
Publications
*''Ueber Substituirung der Aldehydradicale im Ammoniak.'' In: Annalen der Chemie und Pharmacie. 92, 1854, S. 48–59, .
*''Ueber Acetylamin und seine Derivate'' In: Journal für praktische Chemie
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, 1856, S. 242
*''Ueber die Anwendung einer Modification der Gay-Lussac'schen Dampfdichtenbestimmungsmethode bei Substanzen mit hohem Siedepunkt.'' In: Annalen der Chemie und Pharmacie. 98, 1856, S. 301–307, .
*''Empfindlichste Reaction auf Eisen.'' In: Annalen der Chemie und Pharmacie 130, 1864, S. 246–246, .
External links
Portrait of J. Natason, Centralna Biblioteka Rolnicza, Warszawa 2004On the edge destruction -Jews of Poland
(in english), ''J.N., professor of chemistry''
Polish chemistry, Chemistry International, 1998, Vol. 20, No.5, p.131
(in english)
Natanson Family
IVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe (english)
WorldCat books about and from Jakub Natanson
References
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1832 births
1884 deaths
Polish chemists
Polish bankers
19th-century Polish Jews
Scientists from Warsaw
University of Tartu alumni