Guido Goldschmiedt

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Guido Goldschmiedt
Born May 29, 1850(1850-05-29)
Triest, Austria
Died August 6, 1915 (aged 65)
Gainfarn, Austria
Residence Austria
Nationality Austria
Doctoral students Walter Fuchs,
Otto Hönigschmid

Guido Goldschmiedt (May 29, 1850August 6, 1915) was an Austrian chemist.

Goldschmiedt was born in Triest, Austria but studied in Germany at the University of Frankfurt, he went back to Austria in 1869 and studied at the University of Vienna. In 1871 he changed to the University of Heidelberg, where he received his Ph.D for work with Robert Wilhelm Bunsen. For a postdoc he joined the laboratory of Adolf von Baeyer at the Universität Straßburg. He became professor at the University of Vienna in 1890, later at the German Charles-Ferdinand University in Prague in 1892, but returned to the University of Vienna in 1911. He received the Lieben Prize in 1892. Goldschmiedt died in Gainfarn. He studied the structure of natural products, for example Papaverine and Scutellarine.


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