# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/carl-schorlemmer
# Generated: 2026-08-14T12:03:12.281Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/carl-schorlemmer"
name: "Carl Schorlemmer"
slug: "carl-schorlemmer"
description: "Carl Schorlemmer FRS was a German and British chemist who did research on hydrocarbons, particularly paraffins, and was a pioneer in the study of the history of chemistry. He was a professor of chemistry at Owens College, Manchester and a fellow of the Royal Society (1871) and the American Philosophical Society (1878). He was also a revolutionary of 1848, an early Communist, and a personal friend of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels who was one of the thirteen people to attend Marx's funeral; he is sometimes known as \"the red chemist.\""
tagline: "German chemist (1834-1892)"
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country:
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birthDate: "1834-09-30"
deathDate: "1892-06-27"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump