Theodor Wertheim
Chemist, Academic
1820 – 1864
Who was Theodor Wertheim?
Theodor Wertheim was an Austrian chemist born in Vienna. He was the father of gynecologist Ernst Wertheim.
He served as privatdozent in Vienna, and was a professor at the University of Pest from 1853 to 1860. Afterwards he returned to Vienna, and beginning in 1861 worked at the University of Graz. In May- 1864 he moved back to Vienna, where he died soon afterwards. He was a corresponding member of the Vienna Academy of Sciences.
In 1844 Wertheim distilled a pungent substance from garlic, naming it "allyl". He published a number of studies on garlic oil, piperine, quinine and coniine in Liebig’s Annalen der Chemie.
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- Born
- Dec 25, 1820
Vienna - Children
- Nationality
- Austria
- Profession
- Lived in
- Vienna
- Died
- Jul 6, 1864
Vienna
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on July 23, 2013
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