Geheimrat Julius Wilhelm Theodor Curtius was professor of Chemistry at Heidelberg University. He published the Curtius rearrangement in 1890/1894 and also discovered diazoacetic acid, hydrazine and hydrazoic acid. In 1882 he carried out the first ever peptide synthesis, creating the N-protected dipeptide, benzoylglycylglycine.
- Occupation
- chemist, mountaineer, university teacher
- Position held
- Geheimrat
- Citizenship
- Germany
- Born
- May 27, 1857
- Died
- February 8, 1928
