# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/theodor-curtius
# Generated: 2026-08-13T07:30:56.438Z

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name: "Theodor Curtius"
slug: "theodor-curtius"
description: "Geheimrat Julius Wilhelm Theodor Curtius was professor of Chemistry at Heidelberg University. He published the Curtius rearrangement in 1890/1894 and also discovered diazoacetic acid, hydrazine and hydrazoic acid. In 1882 he carried out the first ever peptide synthesis, creating the N-protected dipeptide, benzoylglycylglycine."
tagline: "German chemist (1857–1928)"
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birthDate: "1857-05-27"
deathDate: "1928-02-08"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump