Ernest Khristianovich Fritzman ; ( February 2, 1879 , Yamburg - February 2, 1942 , Leningrad ) - Russian chemist , professor, head of the laboratory of quantitative analysis at Leningrad State University , student and assistant L. A. Chugaev .
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| Scientific field | chemistry |
| Place of work | St. Petersburg University , Leningrad University Institute for the Study of Platinum and Other Noble Metals |
| Alma mater | St. Petersburg University (1905) |
| supervisor | L. A. Chugaev |
Biography
E. Kh. Fritzman was born in Yamburg ( Kingisepp ) on February 2, 1879, in the family of an Estonian rural teacher, graduated from the classical gymnasium and the city of Narva, and then in 1905 the Faculty of Physics and Mathematics of St. Petersburg University. Upon graduation, he was left at the Department of Organic Chemistry to prepare for professorship and at the same time got a job as a laboratory assistant (according to the current nomenclature - assistant) for quantitative analysis.
In 1908, E. Kh. Fritzman specialized in the field of inorganic chemistry and worked successively as a laboratory assistant, assistant, head of the economic part of the laboratory, and associate professor; in 1935 he received the title of professor, transferred to the specialty of analytical chemistry and headed the laboratory of quantitative analysis until 1942.
In 1909, Ernest Khristianovich was also sent to Germany, where he worked with the famous scientist professor Abegg .
At the department of inorganic chemistry from 1908 to 1922, E. Fritzman was a permanent assistant to prof. L. A. Chugaeva in charge of the laboratory and conducted all the administrative work in the laboratory, in which many students and laboratory assistants always worked, all the time the scientific work was in full swing.
When the Institute for the Study of Platinum and Other Noble Metals was organized at the Commission for the Study of Natural Productive Forces of Russia (KEPS) of the Academy of Sciences in 1918, E. Kh. Fritzman was invited by the director of the Institute, L. A. Chugaev, to the post of employee and at the same time was a member Council of the Institute. His work at this institute continued until March 1931, when the University of Leningrad instructed him to head the D.I.Mendeleev museum-cabinet. In 1934, the cabinet was demonstrated to the jubilee Mendeleev Congress and E.H. Fritzman was thanked for the work.
After the death of L. A. Chugaev in 1922, it was incumbent on E. Kh. Fritzman to tidy the papers of the deceased and publish his unpublished works. Ernest Khristianovich successfully completed this difficult task, filling out and publishing all the works that remained unfinished; however, several articles were written by him on draft notes and laboratory diaries of L. A. Chugaev .
Ernest Khristianovich Fritzman, a prominent Russian chemist who devoted his work to the study of platinum metals, died in 1942 during the siege of Leningrad by Nazi invaders.
Contribution
E.H. Fritzman devoted a great deal of time and energy to the history of the study of platinum. He collected enormous material on the history of the discovery of scientific and applied research on platinum, the mining and refining of platinum metals in our country and abroad. This large and interesting work remained incomplete and is stored in the Archive of the Academy of Sciences in Leningrad.
Throughout his life, Ernest Khristianovich conducted continuous pedagogical, scientific and administrative work. This hard work was halted by untimely death during the blockade of Leningrad by the Nazi invaders.