Pettenkofer

Pettenkofer, MAX VON, chemist, was born near Neuburg on the Danube, 3d December 1818, studied at Munich, Würzburg, and Giessen, and in 1847 became professor of Chemistry at Munich. He has made many valuable contributions to science on subjects as various as gold-refining, gas-making, ventilation, clothing, the influence of soils on health, epidemics, and hygiene generally. His Handbuch der Hygiene (1882 et seq.) is his best-known work. He resigned in 1894.