Chemical Anniversaries of 2023 Associated with Charles University

Abstract

The article recalls important anniversaries associated with chemistry and Charles University. Personal anniversaries of individuals associated with chemistry and our oldest university include commemorations of the life milestones of Jan Jakub Václav Dobřenský of Černý Most (400 years since his birth), Johann Jakob Geelhausen (285 years since his death), Jan František Löw of Erlsfeld (375 years since his birth), Josef Bohumil Mikan (280 years since his birth), Jan Antonín Scrinci (250 years since his death), Stanislav Škramovský (40 years since his death), Jan Stanislav Štěrba-Böhm (85 years since his death), Karel Štulík (10 years since his death), Oldřich Tomíček (70 years since his death), and Adam Zalužanský of Zalužany (410 years since his death). Alongside these are the 375th anniversary of the publication of Thaumantias, liber de arcu coelesti, in which Jan Marek Marci of Kronland first described the decomposition of light by prisms, 185 years since Adolph Martin Pleischl moved from Prague to Vienna and 180 years since the start of lectures on analytical chemistry at the Charles University. Full text English translation is available in the on-line version.