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BY the sudden death, through heart-failure, on March 23, of Otto Nikolaus Witt, Geheimer Regierungsrat and professor in the Technical High School of Charlottenburg, at the comparatively early age of sixty-three, and in the full maturity of his intellectual power, Germany loses one of the most distinguished of her teachers of chemical technology, and one of the most successful of her pioneers in the application of organic chemistry to industrial pursuits. Of Russian extraction, Witt had intimate associations with all the countries now warring against Germany. Like Hofmann, Griess, Caro, Martius, and others who could be named-the founders of Germany's unrivalled supremacy in the manufacture of the so-called coal-tar dyes-upwards of thirty years ago Witt spent some time in England as a member of the now defunct firm of Williams, Thomas and Dyer, then engaged in the industrial production of this class of colouring matters. He took kindly to English life, moved freely in scientific and literary circles in London, joined the Savile Club, which had then its home in Savile Row, had his boat on the river, and enjoyed to the full the hospitality which his many social gifts, the range of his knowledge, his admirable conversational powers and charm of manner readily secured for him.
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THORPE, T. Prof. Otton. Witt . Nature 95, 179–180 (1915). https://doi.org/10.1038/095179a0
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