Milivoje S. Lozanić (

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, 24 April 1878 – Belgrade,

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, 25 November 1963) was a Serbian

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Biography

Milivoje S. Lozanić was born in 1878 as the son of chemists

Sima Lozanić Simeon Milivoje Lozanić and Simeon "Sima" Lozanić ( sr-Cyrl, Сима Лозанић) (1847 – 1935) was a Serbian chemist, president of the Serbian Royal Academy, the first rector of the University of Belgrade, minister of foreign affairs, m ...

and Stanka, née Pačić. After two years of studying at the Velika škola in Belgrade, he studied at the

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, where he received his doctorate. He was an assistant at the University of Danzig and then elected professor at the Faculty of Philosophy, i.e. the Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics in Belgrade. He was elected assistant professor in 1908 and taught

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. From 1922 to 1924 when Sima Lozanić retired, his son Milivoje Lozanić took over the teaching of organic chemistry. But from 1924 to 1941, he began to hold lectures in both

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. He was the dean of the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Belgrade in 1935-1937. He was one of the members of the editorial board of the ''Sveznanje enciklopedija''. His main scientific papers were in organic chemistry (condensation of amino-aldehydes, lactones with aldehydes and ketones, etc.). He also worked on analytical chemistry and perfecting chemical apparatus. He improved the teaching of chemistry. He carried out the reform of experimental work and practical teaching of chemistry at the University, following the example of European chemical institutes, as the first assistant professor of this group (1908). He was the first to synthesize cinchonic acid as part of the structure of the alkaloid

cinchonine Cinchonine is an alkaloid found in ''Cinchona officinalis''. It is used in asymmetric synthesis in organic chemistry. It is a stereoisomer and pseudo-enantiomer of cinchonidine. It is structurally similar to quinine, an antimalarial drug. It i ...

and performed other organic syntheses. After the end of the

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in 1945, only full professor Milivoje Lozanić, associate professor Vukić Mićović and assistant Sergije Lebedev were at the Department of Chemistry at the Faculty of Science. He retired in 1955. He was married to Olga Grujić, a court lady, the daughter of General

Sava Grujić Sava Grujić ( sr-Cyrl, Сава Грујић, ; 25 November 1840 – 3 November 1913) was a Serbian politician, statesman, general, army officer, and author, serving five times as Prime Minister of Serbia#Kingdom of Serbia (1882–1918), Prime ...

. They had two daughters, Stanka and Milica. Stanka was married to Patrick Maitland, 17th Earl of Lauderdale.

Sources

* Serbian Biographical Dictionary, Volume 5, pp. 612,

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, 2011

Literature

*Group of authors: "Chemistry: chemical technology", Prosveta, Belgrade, 1993, , 519 pages.

External links

*History of the Faculty of Chemistry at the

References

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