| Authorised form of name | Kolbe; Adolph Wilhelm Hermann (1818 - 1884) |
| Other forms of name | Adolf Wilhelm Hermann |
| Adolph Guillaume Herman |
| Dates | 1818 - 1884 |
| Place of birth | Elliehausen, near Gottingen, Germany |
| Date of birth | 27 September 1818 |
| Place of death | Leipzig, Germany |
| Date of death | 25 November 1884 |
| Research field | Chemistry |
| Activity | Education:
Gottingen
Career:
Assistant to Bunsen at Marburg (1842); Assistant to Lyon Playfair (FRS 1848), London; took over Bunsen's post, Marburg (1852); Professor of Chemistry, Leipzig (1865); editor , 'Journal fur praktische Chemie'
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| Membership category | Foreign Member |
| Date of election | 13/12/1877 |
| RSActivity | Medals and prizes:
Davy Medal 1884 |
| Source | Sources:
Bulloch's Roll; DSB
Authority:
First altname from DSB, second from Boase |
| Virtual International Authority File | http://viaf.org/viaf/2551354 |
| Code | NA6522 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
| RefNo | Title | Date |
| EC/1877/23 | Kolbe, Adolph Wilhelm Hermann: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| MM/10/93 | Letter from Edward Frankland, Royal College of Chemistry, to HE Armstrong | 12 January 1869 |
| MM/10/92 | Letter from Edward Frankland, Royal College of Chemistry, to HE Armstrong | 20 April 1868 |
| MC/11/207 | Letter from Dr Hermann Kolbe, Leipzig, to the Royal Society, London | 3 May 1878 |
| MS/427/398 | Copy letter from the Royal Society; to the German Ambassador | 5 December 1884 |
| MS/427/391 | Note of a letter from [George Gabriel] Stokes, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Henry Ponsonby | 6 November 1884 |
| MS/427/392 | Copy letter from Walter White, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to the Hon. [Charles]. W. Fremantle | 7 November 1884 |
| MC/11 | Volume 11 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society | 1877-1879 |
| PP/6/21 | Paper, 'Contributions towards the solution of the chemical constitution of isatin [tribulin]' by H [Hermann] Kolbe | 1885 |