Rudolf Hugo Nietzki
| Rudolf Hugo Nietzki | |
|---|---|
| Born |
9 March 1847 Heilsberg, East Prussia (now Lidzbark Warmiński, Poland) |
| Died | 28 September 1917 (aged 70) Neckargemünd, Baden-Württemberg, Germany |
| Nationality | German |
| Occupation | Chemist |
Rudolf Hugo Nietzki (9 March 1847 – 28 September 1917) was a German chemist who specialized in industrial dyes derived from coal tar. While a professor at the University of Basel in Switzerland he initiated the university's association with to the local chemical industry.
Rudolf Hugo Nietzki was born on 9 March 1847 in Heilsberg, East Prussia (now Lidzbark Warmiński, Poland) to a Protestant family. His father was Carl Johann Emil Nietzki, a priest, rector and writer. He attended the Königsberg gymnasium (secondary school), which he left before graduating, then began training as a pharmacist. He studied pharmacy in Zinten (now Kornevo, Kaliningrad, Russia) and Kreuzburg, Silesia (now Kluczbork, Poland). In 1865 he qualified as an assistant. He worked as a pharmacist in Hirschberg, Silesia, where he met Paul Ehrlich, who later invented chemotherapy.
Nietzki attended the University of Berlin from 1867 to 1870, where he studied pharmacy. He served as a military pharmacist during the Franco-Prussian War of 1870–71, then returned to the university. Nietzki sat the Staatsexamen to qualify as a pharmacist in 1871, and served as the private assistant of the chemist August Wilhelm von Hofmann (1818–92). In 1874 he received his PhD in the University of Göttingen. After graduating Nietzki worked as an analyst in the sulfuric acid and soda factory of Matthes & Weber in Düsseldorf. From 1876 he was assistant to Antoine Paul Nicolas Franchimont (1844–1919) at Leiden University. In 1879 he began to work for Kalle & Co. in Biebrich, Rhineland Palatinate. In a letter to Heinrich Caro that year Nietski wrote of his position with this dye company, "I have my own small but nice laboratory and nothing to do with the manufacturing; moreover I shall have the same position as you have in Ludwigshafen: That of an inventor!"
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