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He was born on the 27th of September 1818 at Elliehausen, near Gottingen. The eldest son of a Protestant pastor.
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(The investigation of the subject has enabled the synthesi...)
The investigation of the subject has enabled the synthesis of a variety of important and interesting substances to be effected ;and, in the hands of Kolbe especially, it was also of great service in the development of certain theoretical views concerning organic compounds. The present reprint contains Kolbe saccount of his earliest experiments which have any bearing on the matter, as well as his classical memoir upon the electrolysis of valerianates and acetates, and it thus furnishes the first chapters in the history of this line of investigation. Readers who are unfamiliar with the formulae generally employed by Kolbe will find it useful to recollect that the atomic weights of carbon, oxygen, and sulphur are, with him, 6, 8, and 16 respectively. The barred formulae (made use of in one of the papers only) coincide exactly with those employed later without bars. A few obvious misprints in the originals have been corrected. L. D. (Typographical errors above are due to OCR software and don't occur in the book.) About the Publisher Forgotten Books is a publisher of historical writings, such as: Philosophy, Classics, Science, Religion, History, Folklore and Mythology. Forgotten Books' Classic Reprint Series utilizes the latest technology to regenerate facsimiles of historically important writings. Careful attention has been made to accurately preserve the original format of each page whilst digitally enhancing the aged text. Read books online for free at www.forgottenbooks.org
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He was born on the 27th of September 1818 at Elliehausen, near Gottingen. The eldest son of a Protestant pastor.
He in 1838 he began to study chemistry in Gottingen Gymnasium. He obtained the leaving certificate (the Abitur) six years later. He had become passionate about the study of chemistry, matriculating at the University of Göttingen in the spring of 1838 to study under F. Wohler.
In 1842 he became assistant to R. W. von Bunsen at Marburg, and three years later to Lyon Playfair at London. From 1847 to 1851 he was engaged at Brunswick in editing the Dictionary of Chemistry started by Liebig, but in the latter year he went to Marburg as successor to Bunsen in the chair of chemistry. In 1865 he was called to Leipzig in the same capacity, and he died in that city on the 25th of November 1884.
Kolbe had an important share in the great development of chemical theory that occurred about the middle of the 19th century, especially in regard to the constitution of organic compounds, which he viewed as derivatives of inorganic ones, formed from the latter-in some cases directly by simple processes of substitution. Unable to accept Berzelius's doctrine of the unalterability of organic radicals, he also gave a new interpretation to the meaning of copulae under the influence of his fellow-worker Edward Frankland's conception of definite atomic saturation-capacities, and thus contributed in an important degree to the subsequent establishment of the structure theory.
Kolbe was a very successful teacher, a ready and vigorous writer, and a brilliant experimentalist whose work revealed the nature of many compounds the composition of which had not previously been understood. He published a Lehrbuch der organischen Chemie in 1834, smaller textbooks of organic and inorganic chemistry in 1877-1883, and Zur Entwickelungsgeschichte der theoretischen Chemie in 1881. From 1870 he was editor of the Journal fur praktische Chemie, in which many trenchant criticisms of contemporary chemists and their doctrines appeared from his pen.
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He was elected to the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
In 1853, he married Charlotte, the daughter of General-Major Wilhelm von Bardeleben. His wife died in 1876 after 23 years of happy marriage. They had four children. He was survived by four children.