Hans Hübner

Hans Hübner (13 October 1837, in Düsseldorf – 4 July 1884, in Göttingen) was a German chemist.

He studied chemistry at the University of Göttingen, receiving his doctorate in 1859 with a dissertation on acrolein.

In 1863 he obtained his habilitation at Göttingen, where from 1864 he worked as an assistant at the institute of chemistry under Friedrich Wöhler.

In 1882 he succeeded Wöhler as director of the chemistry institute at the university.

[1][2] With Friedrich Konrad Beilstein and Rudolph Fittig, he was editor of the journal Zeitschrift für Chemie (1865–71).