DONATH, EDUARD

DONATH, EDUARD (1848–1932), Austrian chemist. Donath was born in Wsetin, Moravia, and studied in Vienna. In 1876 he became a Christian. From 1888 he was professor of chemical technology and analysis at the Deutsche Technische Hochschule in Bruenn. Donath was a technologist, analyst, organic and inorganic chemist, geologist, and botanist. In particular, he worked on coal, metals, building materials, glass, water, rubber, dyestuffs, and the chemistry of food. His books include Monographie der Alkohol-Gaehrung als Einleitung in das Stadium der Gaerungstechnik (1874), Die Pruefung der Schmiermaterialen with K. Pollak (1879), Neuerungen in der Chemie des Kohlenstoffes und seiner anorganischen Verbindungen (1899), and Das Wollfett… with B.M. Margosches (1901). Donath was active in the development of technical universities at Brunswick, Vienna, Prague, and in the foundation of the Verein der Oesterreichischen Chemiker. (Samuel Aaron Miller)