Friedrich wilhelm ostwald biography of abrahams

In 1880 Ostwald began his teaching for decades as a private lecturer at the Chemistry Institute in Dorpat.

Friedrich wilhelm ostwald biography of abrahams

In the same year he married his fiancée Helene von Reyher. The marriage produced two daughters and three sons. In 1882 Ostwald was appointed professor at the Riga Polytechnic, where he continued his teaching and research on the application of the law of mass effect.

In 1887, the Saxon Ministry of Education appointed Ostwald to the chair of physical chemistry at the University of Leipzig, the only one of its kind in the world at this time.

For more than two decades, Ostwald taught and researched here, trained numerous German and international students and maintained close contact with scientists in Europe and North America. In addition to discovering the relationship between degree of dissociation and the concentration of the acid solution (Ostwald’s Dilution Law), he also investigated the energetic approach to the study of physical-chemical processes (Ostwald&rsqu