Heinrich Limpricht (21 April 1827 – 13 May 1909) was a German chemist. Limpricht was a pupil of Friedrich Wöhler; he worked on the chemistry of furans and pyrroles, discovering furan in 1870.[1]

Heinrich Limpricht
Heinrich Limpricht
Born21 April 1827 (1827-04-21)
Died13 May 1909 (1909-05-14) (aged 82)
NationalityOldenburgian, then German
Alma materUniversity of Göttingen
Scientific career
FieldsChemist
InstitutionsUniversity of Göttingen
University of Greifswald
Doctoral advisorFriedrich Wöhler
Doctoral studentsFriedrich Konrad Beilstein
Wilhelm Rudolph Fittig

In 1852 he became lecturer and in 1855 extraordinary professor at the University of Göttingen. In 1860, he became ordinary professor at the Institute for Organic Chemistry at the University of Greifswald. His oldest daughter Marie (1856-1925) married in 1875 to Protestant theologian Julius Wellhausen.

Rudolph Fittig and Hans von Pechmann were two of Limpricht's notable pupils.

References edit

  • Karl von Auwers (1909). "Heinrich Limpricht". Chem. Ber. 42 (4): 5001–5036. doi:10.1002/cber.190904204121.
  • Gerda Schneider: Heinrich Limpricht und sein Schülerkreis (1827-1909); Diss. Greifswald 1970
  • Genealogy database entry by Vera V. Mainz and Gregory S. Girolami 1998
  • H. Limpricht (1873). "Untersuchungen über die Schleimsäure und Pyroschleimsäure". Justus Liebigs Annalen der Chemie und Pharmacie. 165 (2): 253–302. doi:10.1002/jlac.18731650207.
  1. ^ H. Limpricht (1870). "Ueber das Tetraphenol C4H4O". Berichte der Deutschen Chemischen Gesellschaft. 3 (1): 90–91. doi:10.1002/cber.18700030129.