Tadeusz Estreicher
Tadeusz Estreicher (also Tadeusz Estreicher of Kazimierz Rozbierski; born December 19, 1871 in Krakow, † April 8, 1952 ) was a Polish chemist and professor at the Universities of Freiburg ( Switzerland ) and Krakow. Estreicher was a prisoner of the concentration camp Sachsenhausen.
Life
Tadeusz Estreicher came from the Kraków academic family of Estreicher. He was a son of the historian Karol Estreicher the Elder. and brother of the legal historian Stanisław Estreicher. Tadeusz studied chemistry at the Jagiellonian University, where he was a pupil of Karol Olszewski and Zygmunt Wroblewski. In 1897 he received his doctorate in organic chemistry in Krakow. After further studies in Berlin, Leipzig, and in the later Nobel laureate William Ramsay in London, he became assistant in 1899 and 1904 lecturer at the University of Krakow, where he developed a hydrogen liquefier. In 1906 he was appointed professor of mineralogy and general chemistry at the Swiss University of Fribourg. In the academic year 1913/14, he held there the Office of the Dean. During World War II he worked on the " Encyclopédie polonaise ", which was published in 1916 in Freiburg by the Comité sur la Pologne Publications Encyclopédieques. In 1919 he returned to Cracow, where he received his professorship in 1914 deceased teacher Olszewski was transferred. 1923-1924 he was Dean of the Faculty of Arts.
On November 6, 1939, he was arrested under the Special Action Krakow and brought to the Sachsenhausen concentration camp and imprisoned in a concentration camp Oranienburg to 1940. In contrast to his brother Stanislaus, he survived the prison.
As a chemist, he has, among other things, the boiling and freezing temperature of hydrochloric designed and built an apparatus for the liquefaction of hydrogen. He founded the Society for the Advancement of Pharmaceutical Sciences and was elected its chairman. He has contributed a lot to the Polish vocabulary of chemistry and pharmacy.