Adolf Lieben was an Austria

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n Jewish chemist

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. He was born in Vienna

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 as son of Ignatz Lieben. He studied at the University of Vienna

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, University of Heidelberg (Ph.D.

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 1856 with Robert Wilhelm Bunsen), and Paris

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, and subsequently held the positions of privat-docent at the University of Vienna

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 (1861), and professor in the universities of Palermo

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 (1863), Turin

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 (1867), and Prague

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 (1871). From 1875 until his death he held the chair of general and pharmacological chemistry at the University of Vienna, and is a member of the Vienna Academy of Sciences.

Publications

Lieben has published many essays in "Liebig's Annalen der Chemie

Liebigs Annalen

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" ("Ueber die Einwirkung schwacher Affinitäten auf Aldehyde," 1861;

• "Ueber das Iodbenzol," 1869;
• "Ueber festes Benzoylchlorid," 1875; etc.,
• "Sitzungsberichte den Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien" ("Untersuchungen über Milchzucker," "Einwirkung von Cyangas auf Aldehyde," "Ueber den Formaldehyd und dessen Umwandlung in Methylalkohl," "Reduction des Exotonchlorals," etc.),
• "Monatshefte für Chemie,"
• "Comptes-Rendus de l'Académie de Paris,"
• "Berichte der Deutschen Chemischen Gesellschaft
  Chemische Berichte
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  , Berlin,"
• "Gazzetta Chimica Italiana
  Gazzetta Chimica Italiana
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  , Palermo," etc.