Viktor Meyer

Victor Meyer ( born September 8, 1848 in Berlin, † August 8, 1897 in Heidelberg ) was a German chemist. His first name is sometimes written Viktor.

Life

Victor Meyer studied chemistry in Heidelberg and Berlin. Victor Meyer was married to Hedwig Davidson ( 1851-1936 ). The couple had a daughter. In his later years of life, Victor Meyer was more frequently plagued by depression. During such a depressive episode, he retired from suicide from the life.

His tomb, a menhir of granite, bearing a relief plate with the profile of the chemist Victor Meyer. Below his image is found the name inscription to his wife Hedwig Meyer, born in Davidson. Their daughter, who died seven years old, the little Lehnsockel dedicated at the foot of the boulder.

In 1871 he was appointed as Professor of Organic Chemistry at the University of Stuttgart. In 1872 he went to the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich as the successor of John Wislicenus. 1885 was followed by Victor Meyer a call to Göttingen as successor to Hans Hübner and finally in 1889, as the successor of Robert Wilhelm Bunsen, at the University of Heidelberg. In 1897 he was elected to the board of the German Chemical Society of Berlin.

Work

Victor Meyer is known today especially by the eponymous method for determining the molar mass of volatile compounds with the Victor Meyer apparatus of 1878. Victor Meyer discovered the organic nitro compounds, the thiophene and first described the mustard gas ( sulfur mustard ).

Works

• With Paul Henry Jacobson: Textbook of organic chemistry. Leipzig from 1891 1 General part - compounds of the fatty series. Special part. 1893
• 2 Cyclic Compounds - Naturstoffe1. Mononuclear isocyclic connections. 1902; Unveränd. Neudr 1923
• 2 Cyclic Compounds - Naturstoffe2. Polynuclear benzene derivatives. 1903
• 2 Cyclic Compounds - Naturstoffe3. The heterocyclic compounds. 1914
• 2 Cyclic Compounds - Naturstoffe3. Heterocyclic Compounds. 1 and 2 Aufl.1920

1 General part - compounds of the fatty series. Special part. 1893

• With Treadwell: Tables for qualitative analysis. 3rd edition. Berlin 1891.
• The thiophene group. Braunschweig, 1888.
• Results and objectives of the stereochemical research. Heidelberg 1890.
• From Nature and Science. Hiking sheets and sketches. Heidelberg 1892.