Josef Herzig

Josef Herzig ( born September 25, 1853 in Sanok, Galicia, † July 4, 1924 in Vienna) was an Austrian chemist.

His father was Mendel Herzig. His mother was probably a sister of Clare Herzig, mother Broncia Koller Pinells. He attended schools in Wroclaw and in Vienna, where Sigmund Freud was his schoolmate.

From 1874, he studied chemistry in Vienna, and from the second semester in Berlin in August Wilhelm von Hofmann. In 1876 he was at the University of Heidelberg under Robert Bunsen. Easter 1877 he returned to Vienna, received his PhD at Ludwig Barth Barthenau († 1890) in 1880, according to other sources in 1879, Dr. phil.

He was an assistant at the University of I. Chemical Laboratory in Vienna. After his habilitation in 1887, he taught as a lecturer and, from 1897, as the successor to Hugo Weidel, as an associate professor. In 1899 he married his cousin Etka Pineles (1859 - 1936), which was how he was born in Sanok. In 1902 he was appointed lecturer in pharmaceutical chemistry and the Lieben Prize. 1913 appointed him Emperor Franz Joseph full professor of pharmaceutical chemistry at the University of Vienna. He invented, among other things, a method of methylimide - determination, which was named after him and his pupil, Hans Meyer Herzig -Meyer reaction.