Carl Graebe

Carl Graebe
Carl Graebe in the 1890s
Born	(1841-02-24)24 February 1841 Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Died	19 January 1927(1927-01-19) (aged 85)
Education	Karlsruhe Polytechnic University of Heidelberg
Scientific career
Institutions	Hoechst AG University of Leipzig University of Königsberg University of Geneva
Doctoral advisor	Robert Wilhelm Bunsen
Other academic advisors	Adolf von Baeyer
Doctoral students	Vera Bogdanovskaia

Carl Graebe (German: [ˈɡʁɛːbə]; 24 February 1841 – 19 January 1927) was a German industrial and academic chemist from Frankfurt am Main who held professorships in his field at Leipzig, Königsberg, and Geneva. He is known for the first synthesis of the economically important dye, alizarin, with Liebermann, and for contributing to the fundamental nomenclature of organic chemistry.