Life and Work
Schotten was born as the third child of a syndic at the University of Marburg, his mother was a daughter of a law professor. Although he lost his father at the age of two, his intellectual family background allowed him to receive a good education. After attending the gymnasium in Marburg and Schulpforta, he studied medicine at the University of Zurich. He later moved to the University of Leipzig and changed his subject to chemistry.
Schotten joined the group of August Wilhelm von Hofmann at the University of Berlin in 1875. There, he received his Ph.D. in 1878 under the supervision of Ferdinand Tiemann. Schotten stayed three years in the private laboratory of von Hofmann. In 1881, he was invited by Emil du Bois-Reymond to become lecturer at the physiological institute at the University of Berlin. His analysis of pyridine, piperidine and coniine paved the way for the determination of the structural relations within these three compounds.
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