Josef Herzig (25 September 1853 – 4 July 1924) was an
Austrian
chemist.
Herzig was born in
Sanok,
Galicia
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, which at that time was part of
Austria-Hungary. Herzig went to school in
Breslau until 1874, started studying chemistry at the
University of Vienna but joined
August Wilhelm von Hofmann at the
University of Berlin in the second semester. He worked with
Robert Bunsen at the
University of Heidelberg and received his PhD for work with
Ludwig Barth
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at the
University of Vienna. He later became lecturer and, in 1897, professor at the
University of Vienna. He died in
Vienna in 1924.
Work
Herzig was active in the chemistry of natural products. He succeeded in determining the structure of
flavonoid
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Chemically, flavonoids ...
s
quercetin,
fisetin and
rhamnetin as well as several
alkaloids.
References
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Austrian chemists
Jews from Galicia (Eastern Europe)
People from Sanok
1853 births
1924 deaths
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