Arthur Rudolf Hantzsch

Arthur Rudolf Hantzsch ( born March 7, 1857 in Dresden, † March 14, 1935 in Dresden ) was a German chemist, Professor and Privy Councillor.

Life and work

Arthur Hantzsch studied chemistry at the University of Dresden and received his doctorate at the University of Würzburg. His doctoral supervisor was John Wislicenus. As a professor, he taught at the Federal Polytechnic in Zurich ( 1885-1893 ) and the Universities of Würzburg ( 1893-1903 ) and Leipzig ( 1903-1927 ).

Hantzsch laid significant foundations of the synthesis of heterocyclic nitrogen compounds and the stereochemistry of nitrogen compounds. Other areas of investigation were the electrochemistry and spectroscopy of organic compounds.

Hantzsch was married in first marriage to the late 1904 Catherine Schilling, a sister of the Dresden architect Rudolf Schilling. In 1908, was a limited partner of the Hantzsch operated by Schilling & Graebner Dresdner villa construction company that the villa colony Altfriedstein marketed in the Niederlößnitz.

Honor

The Hantzsch dihydropyridine discovered by him bears his name, just like the Hantzsch pyrrole synthesis. The Faculty of Chemistry and Mineralogy, University of Leipzig awarded the Arthur Hantzsch price for the services to students in their first year performance. A lecture hall of the institution bears his name, next to the entrance, a 1927 created by Alfred Thiele bronze plaque is mounted with a portrait of the chemist.

Hantzsch is one of the namesake of the Hantzsch - Widman system of nomenclature to describe heterocyclic chemical compounds.

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