Tadeusz Estreicher
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Tadeusz Estreicher (19 December 1871-8 April 1952) was a Polish chemist, historian, and pioneer in cryogenics.
Tadeusz Estreicher grew up in the intellectual atmosphere of an influential dynasty of professors at the Jagiellonian University. His father, Karol Józef Estreicher, was an outstanding historian of literature and the chief librarian of the University. His brother, Stanisław, was a historian of Law and his sister, Maria, was one of the first women in Poland to earn a doctorate (in English Philology).
As a student at the Jagiellonian University, Estreicher worked as an assistant to Karol Olszewski, the first chemist to liquefy oxygen. In 1901, Estreicher successfully liquefied hydrogen. From 1906-1919 he was a professor at the Albert Ludwigs University of Freiburg where he ran a cryogenics laboratory. In 1919, he returned to newly-independent Poland and took a position with the Jagiellonian University where he remained until his retirement. His later work examined the history and language of science.
On 6 November 1939, along with his brother Stanisław and other professors of the University, Estreicher was caught in Sonderaktion Krakau. Both were transported to Sachsenhausen concentration camp, where his brother died on 28 December 1939. Tadeusz survived the camp and was released in February 1940, following protests from German academics to the Nazi government.
[edit] External links
- [The Faculty of Chemistry] at the Jagiellonian University
- [Olszewski’s apparatus] at the Jagiellonian University Museum
[edit] References
- Banach, A.K., Dybiec, J. & Stopka, K. The History of the Jagiellonian University. Krakow: Jagiellonian University Press, 2000.
- Burek, Edward (ed.) “Estreicher, Tadeusz” in Encyklopedia Krakowa. Krakow: PWM, 2000.
