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(born Feb. 17, 1838, St. Petersburg, Russia — died Oct. 18, 1906, St. Petersburg) Russian chemist. From 1866 to his retirement he taught at St. Petersburg's Technical Institute. His Handbuch der organischen Chemie ("Handbook of Organic Chemistry"; 1st ed., 1880 – 83) fully described 15,000 organic compounds. The fourth edition (27 vol., 1937) is periodically supplemented, and remains indispensable for workers in organic chemistry.

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Russian organic chemist (1838–1906)

Born to German parents in the Russian city of St. Petersburg, Beilstein studied chemistry in Germany under Bunsen, Liebig, and Wurtz and gained his PhD under Wöhler at Göttingen (1858). He was lecturer at Göttingen (1860–66) and from 1866 professor of chemistry at the Technological Institute at St. Petersburg.

Beilstein's many researches in organic chemistry included work on isomeric benzene derivatives. He is better remembered, however, for his monumental Handbuch der organischen Chemie (1880–82; Handbook of Organic Chemistry), in which he set out to record systematically all that was known of every organic compound. He produced the second (1886) and third (1900) editions, after which the work was assigned to the Deutsch Chemische Gesellschaft, who have published it ever since.

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Friedrich Konrad Beilstein

Beilstein in 1892
Born February 17, 1838(1838-02-17)
St. Petersburg, Russia
Died October 18, 1906 (aged 68)
Education University of Heidelberg
Known for Beilstein database
Beilstein test

Friedrich Konrad Beilstein (17 February 1838 – 18 October 1906), Russian name "Бейльштейн, Фёдор Фёдорович", was a chemist and founder of the famous Handbuch der organischen Chemie (Handbook of Organic Chemistry). The first edition of this work, published in 1881, covered 1,500 compounds in 2,200 pages. This handbook is now known as the Beilstein database.

Life

Friedrich Konrad Beilstein was born to family with a German background in St. Petersburg, Russia. He received his early education in German-speaking schools.

At the age of fifteen, Beilstein began studying at University of Heidelberg under Robert Bunsen. After two years, Beilstein moved to the University of Munich, where Justus Liebig was professor for organic chemistry, but he later returned to Heidelberg. For his Ph.D., Beilstein joined Friedrich Wöhler at the Georg-August University of Göttingen, receiving his doctorate two days before his twentieth birthday.

Beilstein became a lecturer at the University of Göttingen, and later a professor extraordinarius there, in 1865. He left Göttingen in 1866 and became a professor in Saint Petersburg at the Imperial Technical Institute.

In 1881, Beilstein was elected to the Russia Academy of Sciences. Leicester points out that Beilstein had favoured the election of Mendeleev, but that there were certain scientists who opposed the latter's candidacy. Mendeleev was never elected a member.[1]

Beilstein also developed the Beilstein test for the detection of halogens.

References

  1. ^ Leicester, Henry M. (1948). "Mendeleev and the Russian Academy of Sciences". Journal of Chemical Education 25: 439 – 444. 

Further reading

  • Huntress, Ernest H. (1938). "1938: The One Hundredth Anniversary of the Birth of Friedrich Konrad Beilstein (1838 – 1906)". Journal of Chemical Education 15: 303 – 309. 
  • Otto Krätz (1970). "Das Portrait: Friedrich Konrad Beilstein 1838-1906". Chemie in unserer Zeit 4 (4): 115–119. doi:10.1002/ciuz.19700040404. 
  • Richter, Freidrich (1938). "How Beilstein is Made". Journal of Chemical Education 15: 310 – 316. 


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