Oskar Piloty

Oskar Piloty ( born April 30, 1866 in Munich, † October 6, 1915 at Sommepy, department Marne ) was a German chemist.

Piloty came from a family of artists, his father was the painter Carl Theodor von Piloty. He studied chemistry in Munich with Adolf von Baeyer and his doctorate with Emil Fischer in Würzburg, which he then followed to Berlin. In 1899 he became Professor of Inorganic Chemistry in Munich and thus colleague of his father Adolf von Baeyer. After one of his sons in the First World War had fallen, he volunteered to the front and fell in 1915 in the Champagne region.

The study area was initially Piloty carbohydrate chemistry (sugar chemistry), later the chemistry of natural pyrrole derivatives. Named after him is the Pilotysche acid (N -hydroxy- benzenesulfonamide ).

He was married to a daughter of his former teacher Adolf von Baeyer.