Heinrich Limpricht

Heinrich Limpricht
Heinrich Limpricht
Born21 April 1827 (1827-04-21)
Died13 May 1909 (1909-05-14) (aged 82)
NationalityOldenburgian, then German
Alma materUniversity of Göttingen
Scientific career
FieldsChemist
InstitutionsUniversity of Göttingen
University of Greifswald
Doctoral advisorFriedrich Wöhler
Doctoral studentsFriedrich Konrad Beilstein
Wilhelm Rudolph Fittig

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.[1]

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.

  1. ^ H. Limpricht (1870). "Ueber das Tetraphenol C4H4O". Berichte der Deutschen Chemischen Gesellschaft. 3 (1): 90–91. doi:10.1002/cber.18700030129.