Franz Leopold Sonnenschein

Who was Franz Leopold Sonnenschein?

Franz Leopold Sonnenschein was a German chemist from Cologne.

He taught himself pharmacy and, in the 1830s, established a small laboratory in Berlin. He studied with a physician and other pharmacists for the state examination. At the same time he studied chemistry and established himself,in 1852, as a private lecturer. He dedicated himself to analytic chemistry and involved himself in practical activities, for which he gained a reputation unlike any chemist before him. Many technical enterprises owed their success to him. He promoted analytic and judicial chemistry by numerous scientific investigations. He died while a professor at the University of Berlin.