Friedrich Rochleder

Friedrich Rochleder (15 May 1819 – 5 November 1874) was an Austrian chemist born in Vienna.

Son of pharmacist Anton Rochleder, he studied medicine at the University of Vienna, earning his doctorate in 1842.

Afterwards he studied chemistry in Giessen with Justus von Liebig (1803-1873), followed by several months spent in Paris and London.

Later he served as professor of chemistry at Charles University in Prague (1849), and professor of general and pharmaceutical chemistry at the University of Vienna (1870).

Most of his scientific research dealt with plant chemistry, and he was the author of numerous papers involving chemical analyses of various plants and plant substances such as gall, tannin, gardenia, oregano, the roots of Rubia tinctorum, the plant families Rubiaceae and Ericaceae, horse chestnut, the flavonol- quercetin, cassia, Scots pine, et al.