Heinrich Limpricht

Heinrich Limpricht (21 April 1827 – 13 May 1909) was a German chemist. Limpricht was a pupil of Friedrich Wöhler; he worked on the chemistry of furans and pyrroles, discovering furan in 1870.^[1]

Heinrich Limpricht
Heinrich Limpricht
Born	21 April 1827 (1827-04-21) Eutin, Duchy of Oldenburg
Died	13 May 1909 (1909-05-14) (aged 82) Greifswald, German Empire
Nationality	Oldenburgian, then German
Alma mater	University of Göttingen
Scientific career
Fields	Chemist
Institutions	University of Göttingen University of Greifswald
Doctoral advisor	Friedrich Wöhler
Doctoral students	Friedrich Konrad Beilstein Wilhelm Rudolph Fittig

In 1852 he became lecturer and in 1855 extraordinary professor at the University of Göttingen. In 1860, he became ordinary professor at the Institute for Organic Chemistry at the University of Greifswald. His oldest daughter Marie (1856-1925) married in 1875 to Protestant theologian Julius Wellhausen.

Rudolph Fittig and Hans von Pechmann were two of Limpricht's notable pupils.