Skraup, Zdenko Hans von#

Skraup, Zdenko Hans von, b. Prague (Czech Republic), March 3, 1850, d. Vienna, Sept. 10, 1910, chemist, professor at the Vienna Commercial College, 1887-1906 professor at the University of technology and at the University of Graz (1887), professor at the University of Vienna from 1906. Worked mainly in the field of vegetable substances, esp. in that of cinchona alkaloids. 1880 achieved the synthesis of quinoline.