Jakub Natanson
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Jakub Natanson was a Polish Jewish chemist and banker, one of the discoverers of Fuchsine. He wrote the first textbook on organic chemistry in the Polish language.
Life
He was born 20 August 1832 in Warsaw as the son of a banker. From 1852 to 1856 he studied chemistry at the Universität Dorpat with a master's degree in 1856, where he synthesized fuchsine in the master's thesis. He then trained from 1858 to 1862 in Germany, France and Great Britain with leading chemists and in 1862 became Professor of Chemistry at the Szkoła Główna Warszawska in Warsaw. In 1856 he found two new urea syntheses.He gave up his professorship in 1866 to join the family bank He was in the management of various companies and founded, among others, the industrial and agricultural museum.
He died on 14 September 1884 in Warsaw and was buried in the Jewish Cemetery">Jews">Jewish Cemetery.
Literature
Professor Jakub Natanson is mentioned in several books:- Winfried R. Pötsch, Annelore Fischer, Wolfgang Müller: Lexikon bedeutender Chemiker . Harri Deutsch, Frankfurt am Main/Thun 1989,
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- Henryk Kroszczor: Jewish Cemetery in Warsaw. Warsaw: Państwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe, 1983, p. 20.
Publications
- Ueber Substituirung der Aldehydradicale im Ammoniak. In: Annalen der Chemie und Pharmacie. 92, 1854, S. 48–59,.
- Ueber Acetylamin und seine Derivate In: Journal für praktische Chemie, 1856, S. 242
- Ueber die Anwendung einer Modification der Gay-Lussac'schen Dampfdichtenbestimmungsmethode bei Substanzen mit hohem Siedepunkt. In: Annalen der Chemie und Pharmacie. 98, 1856, S. 301–307,.
- Empfindlichste Reaction auf Eisen. In: Annalen der Chemie und Pharmacie 130, 1864, S. 246–246,.