Paul Friedl%C3%A4nder (chemist)

Paul Friedlnder was a German chemist best known for his research on derivates of indigo and isolation of Tyrian purple from Murex brandaris.

Paul Friedlnder was born as son of Ludwig Friedlnder in Knigsberg in 1857. The chemist Carl Grbe was a regular guest of his father thus after finishing the gymnasium, Friedlnder studied chemistry in Knigsberg in the laboratories of Grbe. Later he studied at the Strasbourg and Munich where he assisted Adolf von Baeyer. He received his PhD for the work with Baeyer and completed his habilitation in 1883. He left the wellequipped laboratories of Baeyer in Munich in 1884 to work in the small company K. Oehler in Offenbach. In 1888, he became professor at the University of Karlsruhe.

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