# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/hugo-schiff
# Generated: 2026-08-13T22:27:58.044Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/hugo-schiff"
name: "Hugo Schiff"
slug: "hugo-schiff"
description: "Hugo (Ugo) Schiff was an Italian naturalized chemist. The son of a Jewish businessman and brother of the physiologist Moritz Schiff, Hugo Schiff was German by nationality. He discovered Schiff bases and other imines, and was responsible for research into aldehydes; leading to his development of the Schiff test. He also worked in the field of amino acids and the Biuret reagent."
tagline: "German chemist (1834–1915)"
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birthDate: "1834-04-26"
deathDate: "1915-09-08"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump