Friedrich Konrad Beilstein
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| Born |
February 17, 1838 Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire |
| Died | October 18, 1906 (aged 68) Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire |
| Nationality | Russian |
| Other names | Фёдор Фёдорович Бейльштейн (Russian) |
| 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.
Beilstein was born in Saint Petersburg in a family of German descent. Although he mastered the Russian language, he was educated in a German school. At the age of 15, he left for the University of Heidelberg where he studied chemistry under the tuition of Robert Bunsen. After two years he moved to the University of Munich and became a pupil of Justus Liebig, but soon returned to Heidelberg. There he acquired an interest and preference for organic chemistry, which became his major. For his Ph.D., Beilstein joined Friedrich Wöhler at the Georg-August University of Göttingen, receiving his doctorate in February 1858, two days before his twentieth birthday. To increase his skill and experience he went to Paris to work with Adolphe Wurtz and Charles Friedel. In autumn of 1859, he accepted an invitation for a post of laboratory assistant at the University of Breslau offered to him by Carl Jacob Löwig, but soon changed it for Göttingen. There he became Privatdozent and lectured in organic chemistry. In 1865 he received the title of "Professor Extraordinarius". In addition, he became editor of the journal the Zeitschrift für anorganische und allgemeine Chemie.
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