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WE regret to record the death on Dec. 19, at the age of eighty-nine years, of Dr. C. Willgerodt, extra-ordinary professor of chemistry at the University of Freiburg-im-Breisgau. From the Chemiker-Zeitung we learn the following particulars of his career. Born at Harlingerodt in 1841, the son of a farmer, Willgerodt was trained as a teacher and spent some years teaching in an elementary school before turning his attention to scientific work. At the Polytechnic at Brunswick, he began to study zoology; but in his twenty-eighth year he moved to Berlin, where, under the inspiring influence of A. W. von Hofmann, he devoted his whole time to chemistry. Two years later he accepted a post as chemist in a colour factory at Elberfeld, and shortly afterwards he became manager of a factory at Opladen. Feeling, however, a desire for further study, he gave up his post and entered the University of Freiburg, where, after graduation, he was appointed to the teaching staff. Willgerodt remained at Freiburg for the remainder of his life. In 1896 he was appointed director of the Technological Institute, and in 1915 extraordinary professor of inorganic chemistry and technology. Willgerodt published numerous original papers on organic chemistry, the best known of which deal with the interaction of chloroform, acetone, and caustic alkalis and with the iodoso-and iodoxy-derivatives of benzene.
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[Obituary]. Nature 127, 528 (1931). https://doi.org/10.1038/127528b0
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