- Rudolf Schmitt
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name = Rudolf Schmitt
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caption = Rudolf Schmitt
birth_date = birth date|1830|8|5
birth_place =Wippershain ,Germany
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nationality = German
death_date = death date and age|1898|2|18|1830|8|5
death_place =Radebeul ,Germany
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work_institution =Dresden University of Technology
alma_mater =University of Marburg
doctoral_advisor =Adolph Wilhelm Hermann Kolbe
doctoral_students =Richard Seifert
known_for =Kolbe-Schmitt reaction
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footnotes =Rudolf Schmitt (
August 5 , 1830 –February 18 , 1898) was a German chemist who together withAdolph Wilhelm Hermann Kolbe disovered theKolbe-Schmitt reaction .Biography
Schmitt was born in the small village Wippershain in the
Hesse-Kassel as the second of eight siblings as son of a preacher. He moved several times during his childhood and entered the Gymansium as boarding pupil inMarburg . He received hisAbitur in 1853 and entered theUniversity of Marburg the same year. He started studying mathematics, theology and chemistry, but later concentrated on chemistry. After 8 Semesters he joined Hermann Fehling at theUniversity of Stuttgart but returned to work with Adolph Kolbe in 1857.For his work on Sulfanilic acid he received his PH.D in 1861 and for his work on Salicylic acid he received his habilitation in 1863.
He worked at the
University of Kassel and later the commercial school inNuremberg . Due to a explosion of a glass tube filled withhydrogen sulfide he lost his right eye in 1869.He spent most of his academic career at the
Dresden University of Technology which was promoted from to aPolytechnicum and in 1890 to aTechnische Hochschule during his stay. He was elected Director of the University in 1891, but had to renounce due to his bad health. He stopped teaching in 1893 for the same reason. Schmitt died at his house inRadebeul in 1898.Reference
*ger cite web
url = http://isgv.serveftp.org/SAEBI/artikel.php?SNR=9781
title = Sächsische Biography
author = Karin Fischer
publisher =Institut für Sächsische Geschichte und Volkskunde e.V.
*cite journal
title = Zur Erinnerung an Rudolf Schmitt
author = Ernst von Meyer
journal = Journal für Praktische Chemie
volume = 57
issue = 1
pages = 397 – 408
year = 1898
url =
doi = 10.1002/prac.18980570130
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