August Kekulé

August Friedrich Kekulé was a chemist and pedagogue who worked in organic chemistry. Born in Darmstadt in 1829, he held citizenship in the Kingdom of Prussia. He was educated at the University of Giessen, the Technical University of Darmstadt, the University of France, and Ghent University. His doctoral advisors were Justus von Liebig and John Stenhouse. Kekulé served as a university teacher at the University of Bonn, Ghent University, and Heidelberg University.

He died in Bonn in 1896. Kekulé received the Copley Medal and the Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art. He was a member of the Royal Society, the Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the Russian Academy of Sciences. His students included Lothar Meyer, Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff, and Emil Fischer. He also supervised doctoral students Adolf von Baeyer, Richard Anschütz, and Amé Pictet. He had one child, Stephan Kekulé von Stradonitz.