Ludwig Wolff

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name = Ludwig Wolff


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caption = Ludwig Wolff
birth_date = birth date|1857|9|27
birth_place = Neustadt an der Weinstraße Germany
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nationality = German
death_date = death date and age|1919|2|24|1857|9|27
death_place = Jena Germany
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work_institution = University of Jena
alma_mater = University of Straßburg
doctoral_advisor = Rudolph Fittig
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known_for = Wolff-Kishner reduction, Wolff rearrangement
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Ludwig Wolff (27 September 1857 – 24 February 1919) was a German chemist.

He studied chemistry at the University of Straßburg, where he received his Ph.D. from Rudolph Fittig in 1882. He became Professor at the University of Jena in 1891 and held this position till his death in 1919. In 1912 he published a new reaction now known as the Wolff-Kishner reduction.

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