Prof. Emile Jungfleisch

Abstract

PROF. EMILE JUNGFLEISCH, whose death occurred on April 24, at the age of seventy-seven, was born in Paris in 1839 He devoted himself to chemistry and pharmacy, and at an early age joined the Paris Chemical Society. In 1863 he was appointed dispenser to the hospital of La Pitié, and in 1869 qualified as pharmacist and member (agrégé) of the School of Pharmacy. In the same year he became assistant (préparateur) to Berthelot, who had recently been appointed to the new chair of organic chemistry of the School of Pharmacy, and on Berthelot's retirement in 1876 was made his successor. In 1890 Prof. Jungfleisch was nominated professor of chemistry of the Conservatoire des Arts et Metiers, and in 1908, again in succession to Berthelot, was appointed to the chair of chemistry at the Collège de France. In the following year he was elected a member of the Paris Academy of Sciences, where he took the place vacated by M. Ditte.