LIEBEN, ADOLF:
Austrian chemist; born at Vienna Dec. 3, 1836. He studied at the universities of Vienna, Heidelberg (Ph.D. 1856), and Paris, and subsequently held the positions of privat-docent at the University of Vienna (1861), and professor inthe universities of Palermo (1863), Turin (1867), and Prague (1871). Since 1875 he has held the chair of general and pharmacological chemistry at the University of Vienna, and is a member of the Vienna Academy of Sciences.
Lieben has published many essays in "Liebig's Annalen der Chemie" ("Ueber die Einwirkung Schwacher Affinitäten auf Aldehyd," 1861; "Ueber das Iodbenzol," 1869; "Ueber Festes-Benzoylchlorid," 1875; etc.), "Sitzungsberichte den Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien" ("Untersuchungen über Milchzucker," "Einwirkung von Cyangus auf Aldehyd," "Ueber den Formaldehyd und dessen Umwandlung in Methylalkohl," "Reduction des Exotonchlorals," etc.), "Monatsheften für Chemie," "Comptes-Rendus de l'Académie de Paris," "Berichte der Deutschen Chemischen Gesellschaft Berlin," "Gazzetta Chimica Italiana Palermo," etc.
