Heinrich Hlasiwetz

Heinrich Hlasiwetz
Heinrich Hlasiwetz
Born	(1825-04-07)7 April 1825 Reichenberg, Austrian Empire; now Liberec, Czech Republic
Died	7 October 1875(1875-10-07) (aged 50) Vienna, Austria
Nationality	Austrian
Scientific career
Doctoral students	Hugo Weidel

Heinrich Hlasiwetz (7 April 1825 – 7 October 1875) was an Austrian chemist born in Reichenberg, Bohemia.

Son of a pharmacist, he studied at the University of Jena, where his instructors included Johann Wolfgang Döbereiner (1780-1849), Heinrich Wilhelm Ferdinand Wackenroder (1798-1854) and Matthias Jakob Schleiden (1804-1881). Later he studied under Josef Redtenbacher (1810–1870) in Prague. In 1848 he earned the diploma of Magister Pharmacia, and during the following year received his doctorate in chemistry.

In 1849 he began work as an assistant to Friedrich Rochleder (1819-1874), later becoming an associate professor of chemistry at the University of Innsbruck (1854). In 1867 he became a professor at the Vienna University of Technology, where from 1869 he represented general and analytical chemistry.

During his career he largely worked with resins, tannins and protein compounds. Hlasiwetz is remembered for his chemical analysis of quercitrin, phloroglucinol, resorcinol and creosote.

Written works

• Über das Quercitrin, 1859
• Über eine neue Säure aus dem Milchzucker, 1859.

Bibliography

• "Hlasiwetz Heinrich". In: Österreichisches Biographisches Lexikon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Vol. 2, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1959, p. 340.
• Wilfrid Oberhummer (1972), "Hlasiwetz, Heinrich", Neue Deutsche Biographie (in German), vol. 9, Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, pp. 277–278
• Johannes Uray, Organische Chemie in chemischer Forschung und Lehre an österreichischen Universitäten zwischen 1840 und 1870. In: Bericht über den 25. Österreichischen Historikertag in St. Pölten 2008. St. Pölten 2010, S 402-427.

References

• [4] biography at Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie.