Georg Dedichen

Who was Georg Dedichen?

Georg Maria Dedichen was a Norwegian chemist.

He was born in Modum as a son of physician Hans Gabriel Sundt Dedichen and his wife Caroline H. F. Thaulow. He was a brother of Henrik Dedichen and a maternal grandson of Heinrich Arnold Thaulow. He enrolled as a student in 1887, and studied in Kristiania, Trondhjem, Wiesbaden and Kiel. He took the doctorate at the University of Kiel in 1894 on the thesis Synthesen von Benzolhydragenen mittelst Hydrazinhydrat, his doctoral advisor being Theodor Curtius. In 1904 he was awarded the Crown Prince Gold Medal for the paper Bestemmelse av basiske ringsystemers affinitetsstørrelse. He worked at the University of Kristiania until 1911, at the Norwegian Industrial Property Office from 1911 to 1917 and in the chocolate company Freia from 1917. He also worked as the editor of chemistry in Teknisk Ugeblad.

In June 1895 he married Danish citizen Hetna Ingeborg Brandes, a daughter of Edvard Brandes. Through his son, shipbroker Jan Kurt Dedichen, he was a father-in-law of Aase Bye. Through his sister Christiane he was a brother-in-law of Jacob Vilhelm Rode Heiberg, and an uncle of Hans Heiberg.