Georg Maria Dedichen was a Norwegian chemist.

He was born in Modum

Modum

Modum is a municipality in Buskerud county, Norway. It is part of the traditional region of Hallingdal. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Vikersund. The municipality of Modum was established on 1 January 1838 .The area has a long tradition of skiing with several famous...

 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

Oslo

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, Trondhjem

Trondheim

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, Wiesbaden

Wiesbaden

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 and Kiel

Kiel

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. He took the doctorate

Doctorate

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 at the University of Kiel

University of Kiel

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 in 1894 on the thesis Synthesen von Benzolhydragenen mittelst Hydrazinhydrat, his doctoral advisor being Theodor Curtius

Theodor Curtius

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. 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

University of Oslo

The University of Oslo , formerly The Royal Frederick University , is the oldest and largest university in Norway, situated in the Norwegian capital of Oslo. The university was founded in 1811 and was modelled after the recently established University of Berlin...

 until 1911, at the Norwegian Industrial Property Office

Norwegian Industrial Property Office

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 from 1911 to 1917 and in the chocolate company Freia

Freia (chocolate)

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 from 1917. He also worked as the editor of chemistry in Teknisk Ugeblad

Teknisk Ukeblad

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In June 1895 he married Danish citizen Hetna Ingeborg Brandes (1876–1936), a daughter of Edvard Brandes

Edvard Brandes

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. Through his son, shipbroker Jan Kurt Dedichen, he was a father-in-law of Aase Bye

Aase Bye

Aase Synnøve Bye was a Norwegian actress, known from stage, film and television.-Personal life:She was born in Kristiania as a daughter of merchant Anders Bye and Astrid Hansen . She was married three times. The first marriage, to physician Carl Christian Christensen, only lasted from August 1927...

. Through his sister Christiane he was a brother-in-law of Jacob Vilhelm Rode Heiberg

Jacob Vilhelm Rode Heiberg

Jacob Vilhelm Rode Heiberg was a Danish civil servant and burgomaster in Norway.He was born in Vallø, Denmark as the son of judge Edvard Omsen Heiberg...

, and an uncle of Hans Heiberg

Hans Heiberg

Hans Heiberg was a Norwegian journalist, literary critic, theatre critic, essayist, novelist, playwright, translator and theatre director.-Early and personal life:...

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