The Education of August Kekule

Kekule s resolve was firm, and he was allowed to return to Giessen for the start of summer semester 1849, attending Liebig s lectures on experimental, theoretical, and agricultural chemistry. He spent four more semesters in Giessen, learning the science from masters of the field. For [Pg.40]

Liebig, Experimentalchemie [1927] Kratz and Priesner, Liebigs Experimentalvorlesung (1983). The former is a facsimile publication of Kekule s handwritten notes from 1848, for whose history see Kratz and Priesner, 363-64 the holograph original is in AKS. [Pg.40]

the Hbhere Gewerbeschule, the predecessor of the Darmstadt Technische Universitat—in whose Institut fiir Organische Chemie Kekule s papers are housed today. [Pg.40]

1 23-24. The anecdote (told by Kekul6 to Anschutz) illustrates not only Kopp s quick wit, but also suggests Kekule s manipulative and visualizing talents. [Pg.41]

Reinhold Hoffmann, holograph MS entitled Erinnerungen an A. Kekul, dated 26 November 1900, in AKS, excerpted passim in Anschutz see esp. 1 16-17. [Pg.41]

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