Burckhardt Helferich

Burckhardt Helferich (10 June 1887, in Greifswald – 5 July 1982, in Bonn) was a German chemist.

He studied science, especially Geology, at the University of Lausanne in Switzerland and from 1907 chemistry in Munich and Berlin.

He became a professor of organic chemistry in Frankfurt before succeeding Rudolf Pummerer at the University of Greifswald.

In 1930 he was called by the University of Leipzig to succeed Arthur Hantzsch as director of the Chemistry Institute from 1930 to 1945.

Helferich was voted into the German Academy of Sciences and was made an honorary doctor of the University of Stuttgart.