Carl Jacob Löwig

Carl (Karl) Jacob Lowig ( born March 17, 1803 in Kreuznach, † March 27, 1890 in Breslau) was a German chemist.

Life

Carl Lowig was an academic student of Leopold Gmelin. He later taught chemistry professor at the Ruprecht -Karls- University of Heidelberg and the University of Zurich. In 1853 he was followed by Robert Wilhelm Bunsen as a professor at the Silesian Friedrich Wilhelm University in Breslau. 1856/57 he was rector there, as before 1848/49 in Zurich.

His field were, inter alia, the compounds of bromine, which he created by introducing chlorine into Kreuznacher brine before 1825. During this time he was administrator of the Schmedes'schen pharmacy in Kreuznach. The first publication of a synthesis of bromine in 1826 by Antoine- Jérôme Balard.

In 1881 he was a founder of the Philistines Academic - Pharmaceutischen Association at the University of Breslau, later Corps Frisia Wroclaw.