Guido Goldschmiedt
Guido Goldschmiedt (* May 29, 1850 in Trieste; † 6 August 1915 Gainfarn ) was an Austrian chemist.
Life and work
Guido Goldsmith was born in the then part of Austria to Trieste. He studied at the Graduate School in Frankfurt, then from 1869 in Vienna Science and since 1871 at the University of Heidelberg, where he in 1872 with Robert Wilhelm Bunsen was awarded his doctorate. He changed for two years at the University of Strasbourg to Adolf von Baeyer, until he was first employed as a lecturer at the First Chemical Institute of the University of Vienna in 1875. In 1890 he became professor at the University of Agricultural Sciences in Vienna, and from there he followed a call to the 1892 Prague's Charles - Ferdinand University to finally return in 1911 as full professor at the University of Vienna. This detour was obviously necessary, since you did not see at that time occupied by Jewish -born scientists both chemistry departments of the University of anti-Semitic reasons.
His field of work was the chemistry of natural products and their structural elucidation. He covered the wide range of alkaloids such as papaverine and scutellarin aromatics such as pyrene to the chemistry of fats from the first fat hardening.
At Guido Gold Schmiedt academic students were Walter and Otto Fuchs Hönigschmid. In October 1901 and the 18 -year-old Franz Kafka was one of gold Schmiedt students, however, who moved to law school after only three weeks.