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WE learn from the Chemiker-Zeitung with much regret that on August 4, shortly before his fifty-fifth birthday, Dr. Friedrich Auerbach, younger brother of the physicist Dr. Felix Auerbach of Jena, and well known as the collaborator with Abegg in the “Handbuch der anorganischen Chemie,” died suddenly of heart failure. Auerbach studied at his native town, Breslau, under Ladenburg, to whom for a while he acted as assistant, after which he was engaged for several years in industrial work. But his real interest lay in scientific investigation, and in 1903 he returned to Breslau, where Abegg had recently begun to build up a flourishing school of chemistry. Shortly afterwards he was transferred to the Imperial Health Department. At Breslau, Auerbach devoted his attention chiefly to physical chemistry, and he published many papers dealing with the theory of electrolytic dissociation and the theory and practice of the electro-metric titration of acids. After the death of Abegg in 1910, Auerbach undertook the onerous task of editing the “Handbuch der anorganischen Chemie.” Before the War he was a member of the International Association of Chemical Societies.
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[Obituaries]. Nature 116, 369 (1925). https://doi.org/10.1038/116369b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/116369b0