page_title: Willy Marckwald
section_title: Biography
hierarchical_section_title: Willy Marckwald / Biography
caption_attribution_description: Vorlesungsankündigung Dr. Willy Marckwald für II. Chem. Institut, Bunsenstr. 1, Berlin
context_page_description: Willy Marckwald was a German chemist. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1922 by Gustav Tammann and again in 1929 by Niels Bohr, Dirk Coster and George de Hevesy.
context_section_description: Marckwald studied at Berlin's Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität and received there from the First Chemical Institute in 1886 his Promotierung under A. W. Hofmann with a dissertation on organic chemistry entitled Beitrag zur Kenntniss der Thialdehyde und Thialdine.
  By his research on furans, Marckwald received his Habilitation in a very short time in 1889 under the supervision of A. W. Hofmann at Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Berlin. In 1899 Marckwald became one of the department heads at the Second Chemical Institute. He held this Privatdozent-level position until his age-related retirement in 1930.
  From 1928 to 1931 he was the board chair of the German Chemical Society.
  In 1890 Marckwald married Margarete Salomon (1871–1908). Their marriage produced two sons, Friedrich (1892–1917), who died in World War I as a naval aviator, and Johann (1902–1986). In 1936 Willy Marckwald, with his son Johann and his daughter-in-law Prisca, became immigrants in Brazil.
caption: Dr. W. Marckwald's signature in 1899 at the beginning of his appointment to the II. Chemischen Institut
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