Hans Leopold Meyer

(Johannes) Hans Leopold Meyer ( born March 31, 1871 in Vienna, † November 28, 1942 in the Theresienstadt concentration camp ) was an Austrian organic chemist.

Family

His father, Karl Gotthelf Meyer (1844-1905) was a lawyer, distributors, writers and Consul General of the Republic of Guatemala in Vienna. Even the grandfather Isaac Lewin († 1871) from the Mecklenburg Stavenhagen was consul here. His mother, Clara Regina (1847-1924) was a daughter of the Mainz businessman Benedict Goldschmidt ( 1818-1906 ). He and his siblings Stefan Meyer and Hertha, who married Immanuel Friedlaender were a Christian education.

In 1898 he married in Prague Ottilie Pribram ( 1876-1919 ), the daughter of the lawyer Otto Pribram ( 1844-1917; brother of Richard Pribram ) and Leonore, born Popper. With her he had three sons and a daughter. In 1921 he married Alice ( 1891-1981 ), the daughter of Josef Hofmann and Paula Zechendorf.

Career

Hans Leopold Meyer studied at the Mining Academy Freiberg, at the Technical University of Vienna and at the universities of Heidelberg and Vienna, Josef Herzig. In 1894 he received his Dr. phil.

He was first at the Technical University of Vienna assistant at the chair of analytical chemistry. With Herzig he studied natural products and developed a method for the quantitative determination of stickstoffgebundenem alkyl, which was a valuable tool in the determination of alkaloid.

In 1897 he was an adjunct at the German University in Prague. He was also at the German Technical University from 1897 lecturer, from 1904 ao Professor and in 1908 full professor for general and analytical chemistry. In 1911 he became Full Professor of Chemistry also at the German University of Prague. Among his pupils were Hans Tropsch and Hans Kautsky. In 1936 he went for health reasons to retire.

In 1905 he received the Lieben Prize.

Publications

  • Instructions for quantitative determination of the atomic groups; 1897
  • Analysis and constitution determination of organic compounds; 1903
  • With Karl Steiner: Note for the determination of alkyl on the nitrogen; 1914
  • Textbook of organic chemistry methodology; 3 volumes; 1922-1940
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