Georg Ludwig Carius

Georg Ludwig Carius ( born August 24, 1829 in Barbis, Kingdom of Hannover, † April 24, 1875 in Marburg ) was a German chemist.

His parents, he lost in early childhood and the rector Gehring took care of him. After he had graduated from the school in Goslar, he went by the pharmacist Dempwolf into teaching. Here he decided, in spite of insurmountable difficulties appearing to study Chemistry in Göttingen.

1850 to 1852 he studied with Friedrich Wöhler in Göttingen. 1852 to 1858 he was an assistant at the university laboratory to Heidelberg. He took to Robert Wilhelm Bunsen physico- chemical studies of gases in part, in 1853 received his doctorate and after the Habilitation in 1857 Privatdozent in Heidelberg. In 1861 he became associate professor in 1865 and professor of chemistry at the University of Marburg. Carius developed in 1860 a method for the quantitative determination of halogen, sulfur and phosphorus in the organic compounds, which on oxidation with fuming nitric acid in a sealed thick-walled sealed tube (English: Carius tube ), and conducted the following gravimetric determination of the halides, sulfates and phosphates thus formed. He is also known for his textbook on polybasic acids.

Works

• New synthesis of aromatic acids. In: records of the company for the carriage of the whole science 9.7, Elwertsche Univ. bookstore, 1872, pp. 233-250.