Carl Julius Fritzsche

Carl Julius Fritzsche (17 October 1808 in Neustadt – 8 June 1871) was a German pharmacist and chemist.

In 1830 he became an assistant to Eilhard Mitscherlich at Berlin, subsequently receiving his doctorate with a thesis on pollen, Dissertatio de plantarum polline (1833).

[1] Also, he was able to obtain the crystalline compounds of picric acid with hydrocarbons (benzene, naphthalene, etc.

)[3] In addition, he studied the nature of murexide and recognized it as the ammonium salt of purpuric acid.

[1] He is credited with coining the term "aniline" from the Sanskrit word for the indigo plant.