Adolf Lieben

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Nationality Austrian Parents Ignatz Lieben Doctoral advisor Robert Bunsen		Name Adolf Lieben Role Chemist

Born December 3, 1836 Vienna, Austria-Hungary ( 1836-12-03 ) Institutions University of Vienna, University of Palermo, University of Turin, University of Prague Alma mater University of Heidelberg Died June 6, 1914, Vienna, Austria Education University of Vienna, Heidelberg University Similar People Carl Auer von Welsbach, Robert Bunsen, Jons Jacob Berzelius
Notable students Carl Auer von Welsbach Doctoral students Carl Auer von Welsbach

Adolf Lieben (December 3, 1836 – June 6, 1914) was an Austrian Jewish chemist. He was born in Vienna the son of Ignatz Lieben. He studied at the University of Vienna, University of Heidelberg (Ph.D. 1856 with Robert Wilhelm Bunsen), and Paris, and subsequently held the positions of privat-docent at the University of Vienna (1861), and professor in the universities of Palermo (1863), Turin (1867), and Prague (1871). From 1875 until his death he held the chair of general and pharmacological chemistry at the University of Vienna, and is a member of the Vienna Academy of Sciences.

Publications

Lieben has published many essays in Liebig's Annalen der Chemie:

"Ueber die Einwirkung schwacher Affinitäten auf Aldehyde," 1861;

"Ueber das Iodbenzol," 1869;

"Ueber festes Benzoylchlorid," 1875; etc.,

"Sitzungsberichte den Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien" ("Untersuchungen über Milchzucker," "Einwirkung von Cyangas auf Aldehyde," "Ueber den Formaldehyd und dessen Umwandlung in Methylalkohl," "Reduction des Exotonchlorals," etc.),

"Monatshefte für Chemie,"

"Comptes-Rendus de l'Académie de Paris,"

"Berichte der Deutschen Chemischen Gesellschaft, Berlin,"

"Gazzetta Chimica Italiana, Palermo," etc.

References

Adolf Lieben Wikipedia

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