Theodor Wertheim, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Theodor Wertheim

Austrian chemist

Date of Birth: 25-Dec-1820

Place of Birth: Vienna, Austria

Date of Death: 06-Jul-1864

Profession: chemist, university teacher

Nationality: Austria

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn


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About Theodor Wertheim

  • Theodor Wertheim (December 25, 1820 – July 6, 1864) was an Austrian chemist born in Vienna.
  • He was the father of gynecologist Ernst Wertheim (1864-1920). He studied organic chemistry in Berlin as a pupil of Eilhard Mitscherlich, and in 1843 travelled to the University of Prague, where he studied under Josef Redtenbacher.
  • He served as privatdozent in Vienna, and from 1853 to 1860, was a professor at the University of Pest.
  • From 1861 onward, he was a professor at the University of Graz.
  • In May 1864, he moved back to Vienna, where he died soon afterwards. In 1848 he became a corresponding member of the Vienna Academy of Sciences.In 1844 Wertheim distilled a pungent substance from garlic, naming it "allyl".
  • In his research, he noticed the close relationship between garlic oil and mustard oil.
  • He published a number of studies on garlic oil, piperine, quinine and coniine in Liebig’s Annalen der Chemie.

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