Carl Theodore Liebermann

Carl ( Theodor ) Liebermann ( born February 23, 1842 in Berlin, † December 28, 1914 in Berlin) was a German chemist.

He was a son of the textile magnate Benjamin Liebermann, a cousin of the painter Max Liebermann as well as a great-uncle of Walther Rathenau. His wife was Antonia, daughter Leonor rich home.

Liebermann studied chemistry from 1861 with Robert Wilhelm Bunsen in Heidelberg, where he was a member of the fraternity Allemannia. From 1862 he worked in the laboratory of Adolf von Baeyer at the Berlin Industrial Institute, 1865, he received his doctorate.

1868 succeeded Liebermann and Carl Graebe the synthesis and structure elucidation of alizarin ( Turkey red ). This first synthesis of a natural dye was also of great economic importance ( further developed in Germany by BASF ) and had great influence on the chemical industry.

In 1870 his habilitation. After Baeyer was changed in 1872 to the University of Strasbourg, Liebermann became his successor as head of the laboratory at the Berlin Industrial Institute. 1873 Lieberman was appointed professor.

1872 Carl Liebermann, a member of the Society of Friends, whose long -time chairman was his father Benjamin. The Liebermannsche reaction, an analytical proof of phenols and phenol derivatives, is named after Carl Liebermann.

In 1898 he was elected for one year to the Board of the German Chemical Society of Berlin.