Rudolf Schmitt
Rudolf Wilhelm Schmitt ( * August 5, 1830 in Wippershain, Hesse, † February 18, 1898 in Radebeul ) was a German chemist.
Life and work
However, Rudolf Schmitt studied in Marburg in 1853 only theology, then chemistry at Hermann Kolbe, where he received his doctorate in 1861 and 1864 "On some new derivatives of salicylic acid " habilitated.
After a term as a teacher of chemistry at the Higher Commercial School in Kassel, where he lost his right eye during a lecture at the explosion of a glass tube, Schmitt 1870 Professor of Organic Chemistry at the Royal Saxon Polytechnic Institute in Dresden. His research interests were carboxylations. He improved along with his students Richard Seifert and Friedrich von Heyden presented by Hermann Kolbe Kolbe synthesis for the Kolbe -Schmitt reaction.
After the death of Hermann Kolbe, partnership and scientific director of v. Heyden salicylic acid - Fabrik Dr. F. von Heyden in Radebeul was, Schmitt took over in 1884 whose duties there as scientific director.
Schmitt was one of the founders of the German Chemical Society, whose board he was elected in 1896. The fallen on him in 1893 election as rector of his Dresden Academy Schmitt had to turn down for health reasons and even prematurely give up his teaching duties. He died in 1898 and was buried in Radebeul.
Rudolf Schmitt was the father of the 1874 born later Reich Commissioner and chairman of the now in Chemische Fabrik von Heyden renamed the company, Dr. Ing Eh Hermann Schmitt.
Honor
Since 1 October 2012, the former Salicylsäurefabrik and later Chemische Fabrik Dr. F. von Heyden is one of the historical sites of Chemistry, awarded by the German Chemical Society ( German Chemical Society ) at a ceremony with a plaque at the main building in Radebeul. This is reminiscent of the work of Jacob Friedrich von Heyden, Adolf Wilhelm Hermann Kolbe, Rudolf Wilhelm Schmitt, Bruno Richard Seifert and Richard Gustav Müller.
Writings
- About the Diazophenole 1868 / 1869.
- Constitution of Dichlorazophenols, in 1879.
- Contribution to the knowledge of the piston ash of salicylic acid, 1885.