Franz Leopold Sonnenschein

Franz Leopold Sonnenschein (July 13, 1817 – February 26, 1879) was a German chemist from Cologne.

He taught himself pharmacy and, in the 1830s, established a small laboratory in Berlin. He studied with a physician and other pharmacists for the state examination. At the same time he studied chemistry and established himself,in 1852, as a private lecturer. He dedicated himself to analytic chemistry and involved himself in practical activities, for which he gained a reputation unlike any chemist before him. Many technical enterprises owed their success to him. He promoted analytic and judicial chemistry by numerous scientific investigations. He died while a professor at the University of Berlin.

Works

His most notable works include:

• Anleitung zur chemischen Analyse (Guidance for the Chemical Analysis) (1852)
• Anleitung zur quantitativen chemischen Analyse (Guidance for the Quantitative Chemical Analysis) (1864)
• Handbuch der gerichtlichen Chemie (Manual of Judicial Chemistry) (1881)
• Handbuch der analytischen Chemie (Manual of Analytic Chemistry) (1870-71)