Heinrich Limpricht, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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German chemist
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Place of Birth: Eutin, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany
About Heinrich Limpricht
- 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.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.
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