13 Facts About Carl Schorlemmer

Carl Schorlemmer FRS was a German chemist who did research on hydrocarbons and contributed to the study of the history of chemistry.

Carl Schorlemmer later became demonstrator at Owens College in Manchester with Henry Enfield Roscoe.

From 1874 on, Carl Schorlemmer was professor of organic chemistry in Manchester.

Carl Schorlemmer became a member of the Royal Society in the UK in 1871.

Carl Schorlemmer died due to a lung disease at his house in Manchester on June 27,1892.

Carl Schorlemmer was a friend of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, who asked him for advice on scientific questions.

Carl Schorlemmer was one of the thirteen people at Marx's funeral.

Engels said that Carl Schorlemmer spent his holidays regularly in London with Marx and Engels when he did not visit Germany.

Engels claimed in his obituary that Carl Schorlemmer was open about his allegiance to the Communist cause, and that Carl Schorlemmer was unusual in that he held the German philosopher Hegel in high regard at a time when the latter was "much despised".

Carl Schorlemmer wrote several books about organic chemistry, the most important one being A Treatise on Chemistry, which he co-authored with Henry Roscoe.

Carl Schorlemmer is considered to have made an essential contribution to the history of chemistry as an academic field in his later works, culminating in his book The Rise and Development of Organic Chemistry.

Towards the end of his life, Carl Schorlemmer began to write a book about the history of chemistry from antiquity to the 17th century.

Carl Schorlemmer died before finishing his work, so it was never published, the manuscript covers about 1,100 pages and is stored in John Rylands Library.