Julius Bredt

Konrad Julius Bredt ( born March 29, 1855 in Berlin, † September 21, 1937 in Aachen ) was a German chemist.

Life and work

Bredt doctorate Fittig at Rudolph at the University of Strasbourg. He then moved to University of Bonn, where he habilitated in 1889, was then adopted as a lecturer and from 1897 as honorary professor. He was later appointed as the successor of Ludwig Claisen as Professor of Organic Chemistry at the Technical University of Aachen, where he taught until his retirement in 1923.

Named after Bredt is the 1924 published by him Bredt rule that may be no double bond at a bridgehead atom of a bicyclic compound due to the hoop stress then occurring. Bredt first described the structure of the camphor and was long -time editor of the Journal of practical chemistry. In 1936 he was elected a member of the Scholars Academy Leopoldina.

For his services Bredt was in 1925 as MD of the University of Bonn Eh and the RWTH Aachen Dr. Ing E. H. appointed. His adopted daughter Maria Lipp, born Bredt Savelsberg, employed later as a chemist also focus among others on the theme camphor. She was the first graduate student, professor and full professor of the Technical University of Aachen.