!!!Rochleder, Friedrich

Rochleder, Friedrich, b. Vienna, May 15, 1819, 
d. Vienna, Nov. 5, 1874, chemist. Pioneer in plant physiology, 
professor at the Universities of Prague and Vienna (1870-1874). 
Discovered a number of distinctive substances in plants, concentrated 
on natural colourants (alizarin, purpurin, quercitrin, litmus), 
discovered the relation between caffeine, uric acid and creatine, was 
the first to discover the phenomenon of homology, established the 
fundamentals of modern phytochemistry and structural chemistry.

!Works
Beitraege zur Phytochemie, 1847; Phytochemie, 1854.

!Literature
OeBL.



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