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WE regret to announce the death in his sixty-second year of Prof. Robert Franz Pschorr, which occurred quite unexpectedly on Feb. 23 in Munich. Prof. Pschorr occupied the chair of organic chemistry at the Technical High School in Charlottenburg. From the Chemiker-Zeitung we learn the following particulars of his career. Born and educated in Munich, he began the study of chemistry there under Adolph von Baeyer. Part of his student course was also spent with Bamberger at Zurich and with Knorr at Jena, where he graduated in 1893. Attracted to Berlin by Emil Fischer, he began there his well-known work on the synthesis of derivatives of phenanthrene, which at once established his reputation. Thereafter Pschorr's chief interest lay in the investigation of the constitution of the alkaloids derived from phenanthrene. Shortly after his arrival in Berlin, Pschorr was appointed to a responsible position in the University Chemical Institute, and in 1914 he was elected to succeed Liebermann at Charlottenburg. During his later years he devoted considerable attention to the investigation of coal-tar. He interested himself greatly in the student-life of Berlin, and became the first president of the students hostel at Charlottenburg. He was the recipient of many academic honours, and was one of the editors of the Berichte der deutschen chemischen Gesellschaft.
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[Obituray]. Nature 125, 608 (1930). https://doi.org/10.1038/125608a0
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