Guido Bodländer

Who was Guido Bodländer?

Guido Bodländer was a German chemist.

After graduating from the University of Breslau in 1882, he became an assistant to Moritz Traube in his laboratory at Breslau. Later, Bodländer worked as a chemist in Bonn and Göttingen. In 1899 he became a professor of chemistry in Braunschweig. He was in line to succeed Walther Nernst as chair of physical chemistry at the University of Göttingen, however Bodländer died at the age of 49 prior to attaining the position.

Bodländer is remembered for his work with Richard Abegg and the "theory of valence" based on electrical affinities. Their findings created a new principle of inorganic chemistry.