Theodor Weyl

Theodor Weyl ( born January 8, 1851 in Charlottenburg in Berlin, † June 6, 1913 in Berlin) was a German chemist and physician.

His father Louis died early Weyl (1854 ) and Weyl was home schooled and attended late the Humanistic Gymnasium in Berlin ( High School 1871). Since his youth he was interested in botany and music. Weyl studied from 1872 in Heidelberg, Berlin (with Emil Heinrich Du Bois -Reymond ) and Strasbourg ( at Felix Hoppe- Seyler ) medicine and chemistry, and in 1877 in Strasbourg doctorate ( posts about animal and vegetable proteins). In 1878 he made ​​there also graduated as a medical doctor. He then worked as an assistant in the laboratory of the Physiological Institute of the University of Berlin with Eugen Baumann 1879 and held lectures on Physiological Chemistry at Isidor Rosenthal in Erlangen, where he also completed his habilitation in 1879. 1880/81 he was at the Dohrn Zoological Station in Naples, where he worked on torpedo. In 1883 he went to the Hygiene Institute of the TH Berlin in Charlottenburg, where he led his own laboratory. He worked intensively on public health (hygiene ) and went in 1888 in the Institute of Robert Koch. He was an internationally recognized expert in hygiene, also the Turkish Sultan consulted on these issues in Istanbul, and in 1891 to London, 1896 to Moscow and Istanbul, and in 1895 traveled to Hungary. From 1895 he lectured at the Charlottenburg Technical and opened his own practice as a doctor. In 1911 he received the title of professor.

He is especially known for the later of Josef Houben ( and many others) worked Methods of Organic Chemistry ( Houben -Weyl ). It was the first handbook which summarizes the Organic Chemistry for their application towards. Houben was the co -author of the second volume of the first edition and was in 1921 the second edition out and then the third edition (the last volume came out only after his death).

Weyl also published a multi-volume Handbook of hygiene.

A named after him Weyl test is a color reaction for creatinine. He took the test in his time at Baumann in Berlin.

He later published on tuberculosis, waste disposal, water pollution, waste water clarification and harmfulness of coal tar dyes ( he undertook in Berlin campaigns against harmful tar colors, carrying food were stained ). In Berlin, he was for many years secretary of the Society for Public Health. He wanted to eliminate the waste disposal by incineration as in London and developed corresponding ovens and he designed with Siemens and Halske an ozone machine for water hygiene.

He was married to his cousin's mother Elise vineyard. They had no children.

Writings

  • Organic Chemistry for Medical, Berlin 1891
  • The Theerfarben with special reference to harmfulness and Legislation, 1889
  • Influence hygienic works on the health of cities, Jena 1893
  • Studies on the street hygiene: with special emphasis on waste incineration: travelogue, Jena: Fischer 1893
  • Handbook of workers diseases, Jena 1908
  • Publisher: The slum clearance of the cities in individual representations, Leipzig: Engelmann 1900-1908, for example, of Cologne in 1906, Zurich in 1903, Vienna 1902, Paris 1900
  • Editor and co-author of: Manual of Hygiene, 10 volumes, Jena: Fischer 1896-1901
  • With Josef Houben: The methods of organic chemistry: a manual for the work in the laboratory, Leipzig: Thieme, first in 1909 by Weyl as the sole publisher 3rd edition, Leipzig: Thieme, 4 volumes, 1925-1941, published by Houben, J. Angerstein, K. Arndt, inter alia,
  • 4th edition, Leipzig: Thieme, 15 volumes, 1952-2003, published by Eugen Müller, with special participation of O. Bayer, H. Meerwein, K. Ziegler. At the end of 162 volumes.
  • As of 2000, it continues electronically under the title Science of Synthesis
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