Adolf von Baeyer

Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Adolf von Baeyer was a German chemist who synthesized indigo, and was the 1905 recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

Baeyer was born in Berlin as the son of Johann Jacob Baeyer160 , a wellknown geodesist, and his wife Eugenie Hitzig. His father was a Lutheran. His mother was daughter of Julius Eduard Hitzig, member of the Jewish Itzig family, and had converted to Christianity. Baeyer initially studied mathematics and physics at Berlin University before moving to Heidelberg to study chemistry with Robert Bunsen. There he worked primarily in August Kekuls laboratory, earning his doctorate in 1858. He followed Kekul to the University of Ghent, when Kekul became professor there. He became a lecturer at the Berlin Trade Academy in 1860 and a Professor at the University of Strasbourg in 1871. In 1875 he succeeded Justus von Liebig as Chemistry Professor at the University of Munich.

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