Hermann Franz Moritz Kopp

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birth_date = October 30, 1817
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Hermann Franz Moritz Kopp (October 30, 1817 – February 20, 1892), German chemist, was born at Hanau, where his father, Johann Heinrich Kopp (1777-1858), a physician, was professor of chemistry, physics and natural history at the local lyceum.

After attending the gymnasium of his native town, he studied at Marburg and Heidelberg, and then, attracted by the fame of Liebig, went in 1839 to Gießen, where he became a "privatdozent" in 1841, and professor of chemistry twelve years later. In 1864 he was called to Heidelberg in the same capacity, and he remained there till his death.

Kopp devoted himself especially to physico-chemical inquiries, and in the history of chemical theory his name is associated with several of the most important correlations of the physical properties of substances with their chemical constitution. Much of his work was concerned with specific volumes, the conception of which he set forth in a paper published when he was only twenty-two years of age; and the principles he established have formed the basis of subsequent investigations in that subject, although his results have in some cases undergone modification.

Another question to which he gave much attention was the connection of the boiling point of compounds, organic ones in particular, with their composition. In addition to these and other laborious researches, Kopp was a prolific writer. In 1843-1847 he published a comprehensive "History of Chemistry", in four volumes, to which three supplements were added in 1869-1875. "The Development of Chemistry in Recent Times" appeared in 1871-1874, and in 1886 he published a work in two volumes on "Alchemy in Ancient and Modern Times".

In addition he wrote (1863) on theoretical and physical chemistry for the Graham-Otto "Lehrbuch der Chemie", and for many years assisted Liebig in editing the "Annalen der Chemie" and the "Jahresbericht".

He is not to be confused with another chemist, Emil Kopp.

ee also

*Kopp's Law

References

*1911
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title = Sitzung vom 22. Februar 1892
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journal = Berichte der deutschen chemischen Gesellschaft
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issue = 1
pages = 505–523
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*cite journal
title = Vater Kopp": Bio-, Biblio- und Psychographisches von und uber Hermann Kopp (1817-1892)
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title = Hermann Kopp (1817-1892): First historian of chemistry
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