Deutsche Chemische Gesellschaft

Chemisches Zentrallblatt. This periodical, published by the Deutsche Chemische Gesellschaft to 1945, originated in 1830 as the Phar-maceutisches Zentrallblatt, the name was changed in 1850 to Chemisches-Pharmaceutisches Centrallblatt, again in 1856 to Chemisches Centrall-blatt, and in 1907 to Chemisches Zentrallblatt. Collective indexes are available from 1870. The abstracts, particularly for organic chemistry, are very detailed to 1939. 

Following the Chemical Society of London, other major chemical societies were established in the next few decades, among them the Societe Chimique de Paris in 1857, the Deutsche Chemische Gesellschaft in 1867, and the Amer-... 

K. Hoesch, "Emil Fischer, sein Leben und sein Werk, Deutsche Chemische Gesellschaft, Berlin, Ber, (Special Issue), 1921. 

Deutsche Chemische Gesellschaft (ed.), Gmelins Handbuch, op. cit. (note 335) Ullmanns Encyklopadie, op. cit. (note 374) L. Muller-Focken, op. cit. (note 374). 

He states this early concern in a talk to the Deutsche Chemische Gesellschaft W. Noddack, Zeitschrifi fur angewandte Chemie 38 (1925) 876. 

See for instance the report of a conference given by W. Noddack at the Deutsche Chemische Gesellschaft on 13 July 1925, Zeitschrifi fur angewandte Chemie 38 (1925) 876-877 and draft of a letter of 6 September 1936 to Walter s nephew, K. U. Leuven Archives, Noddack-Tacke Papers, 1187. 

By beginning an abbreviation with the name of the issuing society, as in the case of Am. Chem. Soc., J., one benefit is procured Most libraries index and shelve society or institutional periodicals and pamphlets under the name of the society issuing them. Whereas Deutsche chemische Gesellschaft, Berichte may be logical to a librarian, it may be more difficult for the research worker to remember. 

The Jansen spelling caused some controversy and was not adopted by all the German scientific press. However, it was accepted by the Deutsche Chemische Gesellschaft in all its publications from 1907 on Berichte der Deutschen Chemischen Gesellschaft, Chemisches Zentralhlatt, Beilstein s Handbuch der Organischen Chemie, and Gmelin s Handbuch der Anorganischen Chemie. ... 

L. Mester, Die Formazan Reaktion der mit Perjodsaure oxydierten Polysaccharide. Meeting of the Deutsche Chemische Gesellschaft, Leipzig, 1956. 

This was also the era in which specialist professional societies in chemistry appeared—the Chemical Society of London, the Societ6 Chimique de Paris, and the Deutsche Chemische Gesellschaft. America was late on the scene. In 1876, the American Chemical Society was a local New York society. The ACS of today really came into existence in the 1890s, 50 years behind the Chemical Society of London. The emergence of professional learned societies led to the development of scholarly journals, funded by societies. 

Gmelin, L., Meyer, R., Eds. Gmelins Handbuch der Anorganischen Chemie, Deutsche Chemische Gesellschaft Verlag Chemie G.M.B.H. Leipzig-Berlin, 1995. 

At the turn of the century, the academic-industrial symbiosis still primarily consisted of its classical core, which had developed in the course of the nineteenth century, mainly in the coal-tar dye industry. That core lay in a threefold relationship, each dimension reinforcing the other. The first dimension grew out of personal ties between industrial chemists and their friends and collaborators in academe, often former mentors as exemplified in the relationship of A. W. von Hofmann and Carl Martius of the AG fiir Anilinfabrikation (Agfa) dye works these ties were maintained and formalized by professional organizations like the Deutsche Chemische Gesellschaft (DCG or German Chemical Society, fd. 1867) and the Verein Deutscher Chemiker (VDC or Association of German Chemists, fd. 1887 as... 

In the field of chemical literature, the fiftieth anniversary of the Deutsche Chemische Gesellschaft in 1917 brought the creation of an Industrial Jubilee Fund which by 1918 had collected 2 million marks to subsidize the main chemical reference publications (the Zentralblatt abstracts journal, the Beilstein handbook of literature on organic compounds, and the Gmelin handbook of inorganic compounds). This fund seemed huge by prewar standards, but by 1920 postwar inflation was already making it look small. 

W. Ruske, 100 Jahre Deutsche Chemische Gesellschaft (Weinbein, 1967), 112. 

The following abbreviations are used BDCG, Berichte Deutsche Chemische Gesellschaft) UA, Unternechmensarchiv der Filmfabrik Wolfen. 

The VOCH also kept friendly relations with the Verein Deutscher Chemiker (VDCh, Assoeiation of German chemists). OCHZ published reviews of leetures presented at sessions of VDCh regularly. Also summaries of leetures organized by the Deutsche Chemische Gesellschaft (German Chemieal Society) were reviewed in OCHZ. This will be described in more detail in the following section on publications. 

The OCHZ published various original papers, summaries of artieles from other journals, reviews, eommunieations about patents, short reviews of re-eently edited books, questions from readers to be answered by experts, reports from industry and trade and announcements and reports from VOCH. Also the Chemisch-Physikalische Gesellschaft decided to publish its minutes in the OCHZ. However, we cannot find in OCHZ original research papers in contrast to the publications of other chemical societies (like Deutsche Chemische Gesellschaft or American Chemical Society) as there had existed since 1880 the Mormtshefte fiir Chemie (Chemical Monthly)," where most Austrian chemists published their scientific papers. The intended readers of OCHZ were mainly chemists from industry (chemical and food) and administration, who wanted information about industrial developments in Austria and abroad, about new institutions, biographical notes about famous chemists and reports summarizing new developments in various fields of chemistry. 

But in comparative perspective, the growth of the Societe chimique was not impressive. Its German and British sister societies, the Deutsche Chemische Gesellschaft and the Chemical Society of London, each had more than 3100... 

Deutsche chemische Gesellschaft German Chemical Society DCG 1867 ... 

The Deutsche chemische Gesellschaft and the Chemical Industry in the Hofmann Era... 

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