the Fourth Week of Advent
Click here to join the effort!
Bible Encyclopedias
Cohn, Lassar
The 1901 Jewish Encyclopedia
or German chemist; born at Hamburg Sept. 6, 1858. After attending the gymnasium at Königsberg, he studied chemistry at different universities, taking his doctor's degree in 1880. He worked for a number of years in various chemical establishments; delivered public lectures in Munich; became privat-docent at Königsberg in 1888; and was appointed professor in 1894.
His works, published under the name "Lassar-Cohn," include: "Arbeitsmethoden für Organischchemische Laboratorien," 3d ed., 1902; "Moderne Chemie," twelve lectures to physicians, 1891; "Die Chemie im Täglichen Leben," 5th ed., 1903 (also translated into many European languages, and into Hebrew); "Einführung in die Chemie in Leichtfasslicher Form," 2d ed., 1903; "Praxis der Harnanalyse," 2d ed., 1898; "Die Säuren der Rinderund Menschengalle," 1898; "Die Chemische Industrie," being vol. of "Das Buch der Erfindungen, Gewerbe, und Industrien"; and a revised edition of Stöckhardt's "Schule der Chemie." He has also contributed to the "Berichte der Deutschen Chemischen Gesellschaft," "Annalen der Chemie," and the "Zeitschrift für Physiologische Chemie."
These files are public domain.
Singer, Isidore, Ph.D, Projector and Managing Editor. Entry for 'Cohn, Lassar'. 1901 The Jewish Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/tje/c/cohn-lassar.html. 1901.
