Ferdinand Tiemann

Johann Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand Tiemann

Ferdinand Tiemann c. 1880 in Berlin
Born (1848-06-10)June 10, 1848
Rübeland (now part of Elbingerode), Kingdom of Hanover
Died November 14, 1899(1899-11-14) (aged 51)
Meran, Austria-Hungary
Institutions University of Berlin
Alma mater TU Braunschweig
Doctoral advisor August Wilhelm von Hofmann
Doctoral students Julius Stieglitz,
Carl Harries
Known for Reimer-Tiemann reaction,
Tiemann rearrangement

Johann Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand Tiemann (June 10, 1848 November 14, 1899) was a German chemist and together with Karl Reimer discoverer of the Reimer-Tiemann reaction.

Beginning in 1866, Tiemann studied pharmacy at the TU Braunschweig where he graduated in 1869. His professor in Brunswick wrote a letter of recommendation to August Wilhelm von Hofmann at the University of Berlin where Tiemann started as assistant of von Hofmann in 1869. In 1874 Wilhelm Haarmann and Tiemann started a company, after they discovered the synthesis of vanillin from coniferyl alcohol. The vanillin plant Holzminden was not very successful before Karl Reimer discovered the Reimer-Tiemann reaction which opened an alternative synthesis route to vanillin. In 1882 Tiemann became professor at the University of Berlin.

He was involved in the first synthesis of Jonon a compound of the sweet violet (Viola odorata), which became a huge success for Harmann & Reimer company.

August Wilhelm von Hofmann married Berta the younger sister of Ferdinand Tiemann.

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