Friedlieb Ferdinand Runge - Hamburg, Deutschland
N 53° 30.848 E 010° 07.676
32U E 574792 N 5930057
Geburtshaus des Chemikers Friedlieb Ferdinand Runge am Billwerder Billdeich 140 in Hamburg
Waymark Code: WMY9E7
Location: Hamburg, Germany
Date Posted: 05/14/2018
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Childhood home of chemist Friedlieb Ferdinand Runge at 140, Billwerder Billdeich in Hamburg.
Friedlieb Ferdinand Runge (* 8. Februar 1794 in Hamburg-Billwerder; † 25. März 1867 in Oranienburg) was a German analytical chemist.
Runge conducted chemical experiments from a young age, serendipitously identifying the mydriatic (pupil dilating) effects of belladonna (deadly nightshade) extract.
In 1819, he demonstrated his finding to Goethe, who encouraged him to analyse coffee. A few months later, Runge identified caffeine.
Runge studied chemistry in Jena and Berlin, where he obtained his doctorate. After touring Europe for three years, he taught chemistry at the university of Breslau until 1831. From then until 1852 he worked for a chemical company, but was dismissed by a resentful manager and died fifteen years later in poverty.
His chemical work included purine chemistry, the identification of caffeine, the first coal tar dye (aniline blue), coal tar products (and a large number of substances that derive from coal tar), paper chromatography, pyrrole, chinoline, phenol, thymol and atropine.
He was the first to notice in 1855 the phenomenon of "Liesegang rings". He observed them in the course of experiments on the precipitation of reagents in blotting paper
Name of Famous Person: Friedlieb Ferdinand Runge
Physical Address: Billwerder Billdeich 140, 22113 Hamburg
What is this person famous for?:
Entdecker des Alkaloids Coffein (1820), des Anilins und Phenols (1833).
Discoverer of the alkaloid caffeine (1820), aniline and phenol (1833).
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Personal Experience:
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Gebäude in mäßigem Zustand, dem man das Alter (Baujahr 1833) aber nicht ansieht. Die angebrachte Bronzeplatte wirkt etwas deplatziert.
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Building in moderate condition, but the actual age of the house is not recognizable (year of construction 1833). The attached bronze plate seems a bit out of place.
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