Friedrich Wöhler

Friedrich Wöhler was a male chemist, biochemist, and university teacher who worked in the field of chemistry. He was educated at the University of Marburg and Heidelberg University, where he earned a doctorate under the supervision of Leopold Gmelin and Jöns Jacob Berzelius. Wöhler served as an employee of the University of Göttingen and taught students including Adolph Wilhelm Hermann Kolbe, Georg Ludwig Carius, Carl Schmidt, and Wilhelm Kühne.

He was a citizen of the Kingdom of Prussia, the Electorate of Hesse, the Landgraviate of Hesse-Kassel, and the German Empire. Wöhler was a member of the Royal Society, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Lower Saxony, and the Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences. He received the Copley Medal, the Cothenius Medal, the Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art, and the Knight of the Legion of Honour.

Wöhler died in Göttingen on 1882-09-23 and is buried in the Göttingen City Cemetery. He spoke and wrote in German. His work is described in the Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, the Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie, the Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition, and the New International Encyclopedia.