Carl Jacob Löwig

Carl Jacob Löwig
Born	17 March 1803 Bad Kreuznach, Germany
Died	27 March 1890 (aged 87) Breslau, Germany
Nationality	German
Institutions	University of Heidelberg, University of Zurich, University of Breslau
Alma mater	University of Heidelberg
Doctoral advisor	Leopold Gmelin
Known for	discovery of bromine

Carl Jacob Löwig (17 March 1803 – 27 March 1890) was a German chemist and discovered bromine independently of Antoine Jérôme Balard.

He received his PhD at the University of Heidelberg for his work with Leopold Gmelin. During his research on mineral salts he discovered bromine in 1825, as a brown gas evolving after the salt was treated with chlorine.^[1][2][3]

After working at the University of Heidelberg and the University of Zurich he became the successor to Robert Wilhelm Bunsen at the University of Breslau. He worked and lived in Breslau until his death in 1890.

References

1. Carl Löwig (1827) "Über Brombereitung und eine auffallende Zersetzung des Aethers durch Chlor" (On the preparation of bromine and a striking decomposition of ether by chlorine), Magazine für Pharmacie, vol. 21, pages 31-36.
2. Carl Löwig (1828) "Über einige Bromverbindungen und über Bromdarstellung" (On some bromine compounds and on the production of bromine), Poggendorff's Annalen der Physik und Chemie, vol. 14, pages 485-499 (Modern citation: Annalen der Physik, vol. 90, no. 11, pages 485-499).
3. Carl Löwig, Das Brom und seine chemischen Verhältnisse (Bromine and its chemical relationships) (Heidelberg: Carl Winter, 1829).

• Hans Heinrich Landolt (1890). "Nekrolog: Carl Löwig". Berichte der deutschen chemischen Gesellschaft. 23 (3): 905–909. doi:10.1002/cber.18900230395.