Friedrich Konrad Beilstein

Friedrich Konrad Beilstein , Russian name , , was a chemist and founder of the famous Handbuch der organischen Chemie . 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 Russian language, he was educated in a German school. At the age of 15, he left for 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 the interest and preference for organic chemistry, which became his major. For his Ph.D., Beilstein joined Friedrich Whler at the GeorgAugust University of Gttingen, 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 Lwig, but soon changed it for Gttingen. There he became privatdocent and lectured in organic chemistry. In 1

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