Heinrich Limpricht

Infobox_Scientist
name = Heinrich Limpricht

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caption = Heinrich Limpricht
birth_date = 21 April 1827
birth_place = Eutin, Duchy of Oldenburg
death_date = 13 May 1909
death_place = Greifswald, German Empire
residence =
nationality = Oldenburgian, then German
field = Chemist
work_institution = University of Göttingen
University of Greifswald
alma_mater = University of Göttingen
doctoral_advisor = Friedrich Wöhler
doctoral_students = Friedrich Konrad Beilstein
Wilhelm Rudolph Fittig
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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. [cite journal
title = Ueber das Tetraphenol C₄H₄O
pages = 90–91
author = H. Limpricht
volume = 3
issue = 1
year = 1870
journal = Berichte der deutschen chemischen Gesellschaft
doi =10.1002/cber.18700030129]

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

* cite journal
title = Heinrich Limpricht
pages = 5001–5036
author = Karl von Auwers
volume = 42
issue = 4
year = 1909
journal = Chem. Ber.
doi =10.1002/cber.190904204121
* Gerda Schneider: "Heinrich Limpricht und sein Schülerkreis (1827-1909)"; Diss. Greifswald 1970
* [http://www.scs.uiuc.edu/~mainzv/Web_Genealogy/Info/limprichthfp.pdf Genealogy database entry by Vera V. Mainz and Gregory S. Girolami 1998]
*cite journal
title = Untersuchungen über die Schleimsäure und Pyroschleimsäure
pages = 253–302
author = H. Limpricht
volume = 165
issue = 2
year = 1873
journal = Justus Liebig's Annalen der Chemie und Pharmacie
doi =10.1002/jlac.18731650207