Fritz Arndt

Fritz Arndt ( born July 6, 1885 in Hamburg, † December 8, 1969 ) was a German chemist and Turkish.

Life

Arndt graduated in his home town of his schooling and began to study chemistry at the University of Geneva. Later he moved to the University of Berlin and ended in 1908 this study at the University of Freiburg with a successful promotion.

In Freiburg he was in the same year was employed as scientific assistant. Later he moved to the same position to Greifswald and Kiel. He habilitated in 1911 and was a lecturer at the University of Breslau.

1915 Arndt took up an appointment at the Darülfünun and taught there for three years. In 1918 he returned as A.O. Prof. returned to Breslau and became there ten years later to Full Professor

1933, after the seizure of power by the National Socialists, Arndt was marketed as one of the first from his office. In the same year he emigrated to the UK for a few months and got a teaching position at the University of Oxford. In 1934 he accepted a professorship at the University of Istanbul and was soon promoted to Director of the Chemical Institute of the University.

Together with colleagues and other emigrants he later founded a private academy there. On behalf of the Turkish Ministry of Education, he translated the ancient Arab chemical symbols to the symbols internationally known. Almost 20 years worked as a chemist Arndt and teacher in Istanbul. Then he returned to his hometown, got the status of Emeritus and worked from 1955 as honorary professor at the University of Hamburg. He held until his death this office. In 1965 he was elected a member of the Scholars Academy Leopoldina.

Arndt is considered one of the founders of the theory of resonance. He mainly focused on organic chemistry and was one of the first to diazomethane introduced as a preparative tool.

The methodology described by him and Bernd Eistert Arndt Eistert homologation bears his name.

Fritz Arndt was in 1930 married his second wife, Hertha born Hübner and had three children.

Works

• Methoden der Organischen Chemie (Houben-Weyl ), 1953
• About aromatic isothioureas and Orthothiokohlensäureester, Habilitation Thesis Wroclaw 1912
• Short chemistry lab course for health professionals and farmers (1912 )
• Studies on new derivatives of o- Toluchinolins, Thesis Freiburg 1908