Fischer, Hermann Otto

Smith, F. See also, Jones, J. K. N. Sowden, John C., The Nitromethane and 2-Nitroethanol Syntheses, 8, 291-318 Sowden, John C., [Obituary of] Hermann Otto Laurenz Fischer, 17, 1-14 Sowden, John C., The Saccharinic Acids, 12, 35-79... 

In 1875 Fischer followed von Baeyer to the University of Munich, and in 1881 he obtained his first academic post as professor of organic chemistry at the University of Erlangen. This was followed by his being called to the University of Wurzburg in 1888, and finally, in 1892, to the University of Berlin, where he remained until his death in 1919. His son Hermann Otto (1888-1960) went on to have a distinguished career in biochemistry. 

SowDEN, JohnC., [Obituary of] Hermann Otto Laurenz Fischer, 17, 1 — 14... 

See also, the obituary of Hermann Otto Laurenz Fischer by J. C. Sowden, Advan. Carbohyd. Chem., 17,1 (1962). 

Fischer s personal life was not as happy as his professional life. His wife died after only seven years of marriage, leaving Fischer with three sons. One son died in World War I and another committed suicide at the age of twenty-five. However, his third son, Hermann Otto Laurenz Fischer, followed in his father s footsteps, becoming a professor of biochemistry at the University of California at Berkeley. 

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