Adolf Lieben

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Adolf Lieben was an Austrian Jewish chemist. He was born in Vienna on December 3, 1836. He studied at the universities of Vienna, Heidelberg (Ph.D. 1856), and Paris, and subsequently held the positions of privat-docent at the University of Vienna (1861), and professor in the universities of Palermo (1863), Turin (1867), and Prague (1871). From 1875 until his death he held the chair of general and pharmacological chemistry at the University of Vienna, and is a member of the Vienna Academy of Sciences.

[edit] Publications

Lieben has published many essays in "Liebig's Annalen der Chemie" ("Ueber die Einwirkung Schwacher Affinitäten auf Aldehyd," 1861;

"Ueber das Iodbenzol," 1869;
"Ueber Festes-Benzoylchlorid," 1875; etc.,
"Sitzungsberichte den Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien" ("Untersuchungen über Milchzucker," "Einwirkung von Cyangus auf Aldehyd," "Ueber den Formaldehyd und dessen Umwandlung in Methylalkohl," "Reduction des Exotonchlorals," etc.),
"Monatsheften für Chemie,"
"Comptes-Rendus de l'Académie de Paris,"
"Berichte der Deutschen Chemischen Gesellschaft Berlin,"
"Gazzetta Chimica Italiana Palermo," etc.