Association of Austrian Chemists

Figure 1.1 Number of members of the Association of Austrian Chemists between 1898 and 1918.

Postcard sent by K. Hazura, the first secretary of the Association of Austrian Chemists, to the Czech chemist Bohuslav Brauner from Vienna on May 30, 1900. The card contains current data on the Association. Brauner helped the American chemist Bolton to collect information on European chemical societies for Bolton s brochure Chemical Societies of the Nineteenth Century (Washington, 1902). The card is kept in the Museum of Czech Literature in Prague, Collection B. Brauner, Correspondence. The picture was given to the author by S. Strbanova. 

The Association of Austrian Chemists was founded at a time when the number of chemical companies, in which all sorts of chemicals were made, grew rapidly, with the consequence that more and more chemists were required to work in the industry. The industrial production shows clearly that this growth started around 1890 (Table 1.5). ... 

Verein deutscher Kallchemiker (Association of German Potash Chemists), 115,129 Verein Oesterreichischer Chemiker in Wien (Association of Austrian Chemists in Vieima),4,59... 

The main concern of the society was the professional recognition and the status of Austrian chemists. Other goals of the association were to further chemistry and chemists in all areas of science and economy, and to sustain research and education in Austria. Any political influence should be excluded from the activity of the association. VOCH supported its members by arranging positions for chemists free of charge. A commission for that was established in 1897, as mentioned previously. The nine members of that commission came from Bmo (Bruim), Prague, Vieima and Graz. " Fifteen to twenty jobs were offered each year with the help of VOCH. Efforts to establish a legal title for... 

VDCh Verein Deutscher Chemiker (Association of German Chemists) VOCH Verein Osterreichischer Chemiker in Wien (Austrian Chemists Association in Vienna in 1901 the supplement in Wien was omitted from the name, in 1982 the name was changed into GOCH)... 

Biochemistry in Vienna, and, for this, he was honored by a citation from the Austrian government. He was a member of the American Society of Biological Chemists, Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Xi, Phi Lambda Upsilon, Pi Mu Epsilon, and Alpha Chi Sigma. He was a member of the National Committee of Ae Phi Beta Kappa Book Award in Science from 1961 to 1963, and served as its chairman in 1963. He was a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the New York Academy of Science, the Ohio Academy of Science, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and The Chemical Society (London). In 1959, he was an invited lecturer in the Biochemistry Department at Tufts University Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts. 

The basis for this chapter is the Osterreichische Chemiker-Zeitung (OCHZ, Austrian Chemists Journal), which was founded in 1887 and became the official journal of the Verein Osterreichi-scher Chemiker in Wien (VOCH, Austrian Chemists Association in Vienna) in 1898. The complete archives of the VOCH were lost when the association was eliminated in 1938 and during removals after the Second World War. See also references Tumpel (1995), Markl (1997), Rosner (2004). 

K.k. Kaiserhch koniglich (Imperial and royal) dCHZ Osterreichische Chemiker-Zeitung (Austrian Chemists Journal) OIAV Osterreichischer Ingenieur- und Architektenverein (Austrian Association of Engineers and Architects)... 

Tables 15.1 and 15.2 summarize the foundation years of those national chemical societies that are dealt with in this book. The Chemical Society, the first national chemical society, was founded in 1841 in Great Britain, and remained the only one on the scene until the founding of Societe chimique de Paris in 1857. About ten years later almost simultaneously came into being the chemical societies in the Czech Lands, Germany, Russia and Austria. In the first three countries the societies evolved into stable platforms of the national chemical communities existing up to the present in spite of their various transformations in the early deeades. The Austrian chemists, however, had to wait until 1897 for an association covering their needs.

Osterreichische Chemiker-Zeitung (Austrian Chemists Journal), 1,6,8,12,14-18,174 Osterreichische Gesellschaft zur Forderung der chemischen Industrie (Austrian Society for the Advancement of the Chemical Industry), 14, 48, 57,67 Osterreichischer Ingenieur-und Architektenverein (Austrian engineers and architects association), 4,12,13 Owens College, Manchester, 142,150... 

Located in Prague, associated both chemists and industrialists, Czechs and Germans. Its significance was all-Austrian. Its main goal was to support the advancement of the chemical industry Supported chemistry students at the German Technical University... 

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