Justus von Liebig's doctoral students in his Giessen laboratory, Wilhelm Trautschold, 1841

Justus von liebig's doctoral students in his laboratory in giessen, around 1841 (now the liebig museum) description of the person at http://onlinelibrary. Wiley. Com/doi/10. 1002/cber. 19020350202/abstract, see discussion for quote: the stately mexican (vicente) ortigosa is standing on the left; he is holding a potassium apparatus in his hand and may well be busy preparing one of the elemental analyses with which he determined the composition of nicotine and coniine; from his posture, one could almost assume that an emissary from the >>week<< is nearby with his >>please, gentlemen, stand still for a moment<<. His two neighbors are not named. (heinrich) will, in the middle of the picture, is trying to explain a chemical process to wilhelm keller, who is standing in front of him. The figure with spread legs at the right middle table, watching a distillation with unmistakable self-confidence, is called (w. ) wydler (note: pharmacist, aarau). The slim, elegant man with hat and gloves standing on the extreme right is our aug. Wilh. Hofmann; he is devoting all his attention to the test tube that his neighbor, emil boeckmann, is shaking. Then follow (joseph von) scherer and, in the far background, (adolph) strecker, both later professors of chemistry in würzburg, both of whom died all too soon from science. Object Type: painting. Genre: group portrait. Date: 1841. Medium: painting. Trautschold liebig laboratorium 1841