Aschan, Ossian

See for example, Ossian Aschan, Synpunkter i frSga om v r kemiska industri, Tekniska Foreningen i Finland, Fbrhandlingar, 10 (1910). 

Hjelt became well-known as an industrious author of textbooks that were used for decades not only in Finland but also abroad. With Ossian Aschan he wrote a popular textbook in Swedish, and four new volumes, totalling 4,000 pages, in the series edited by Henry Roscoe and Carl Schorlemmer, Ausfurliches Lehrbuch der organischen... 

Hjelt s successor, Ossian Aschan, had also studied in Germany under the same supervisors, including Johannes Wislicenus, as many other Finnish chemists did at the time. Aschan produced an enormous scientific output of articles and monographs. He published some 250 works, most of them dealing with camphors and terpenes. His book on alicyclic compounds is regarded as his most significant work. ... 

Edward Hjelt and Ossian Aschan, Ldrobok i organisk kemi, 1st edition (Helsingfors, G.W. Ediund, 1893), 4th edition (Stockholm Samson Wallin, 1922) H. Roscoe and C. Schorlemmer, eds, Ausfuhrliches Lehrbuch der organischen Chemie, Teil 3-7 (1896-1901). 

Ossian Aschan, Chemie der alicyklischen Verbindungen (Braunschweig Vieweg Sohn, 1905), 1163 pages. 

Adolf Ossian Aschan (Helsinki, Finland 16 May 1860-25 February 1939) was assistant and then professor (1908) in the University of Helsinki and was also interested in industry. He worked on alicyclic compounds, including their stereochemistry, allyl formate,turpentine, camphor, naphthenes and naphthenic acids. 

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