Heinrich Hlasiwetz

Heinrich Hermann Hlasiwetz ( born April 7, 1825 Reichenberg, Bohemia, † October 8, 1875 in Vienna) was an Austrian chemist.

Heinrich Hlasiwetz learned the pharmacy, studied it at the universities of Jena, Vienna and Prague, in 1849 assistant Friedrich Roch leather, 1851 and 1854, associate professor of chemistry in Innsbruck.

Here he established a chemical laboratory and worked with great success as a teacher and researcher. In 1867 he accepted an appointment as a professor of chemical engineering at the Technical University in Vienna, and in 1869 he exchanged this professorship with the general chemistry.

In 1873 he took over the Department of technical colleges in the Ministry of Education.

Hlasiwetz has uncommonly numerous studies, especially, delivered in the field of organic chemistry. Particularly noteworthy are his works on Buchenteerkreosot, resins, tannins, phloroglucinol, on alkaloids, sugars and proteins. He died in Vienna, shortly after he had married the Baroness Antershofen.

One of his ancestors, Philip Hlasiwetz, was the son of Ignaz coat, a relative of Johann Josef coat, and had his pharmacy on the market adopted in Reichenberg.