Jacob Volhard

Jacob Volhard (4 June 1834 – 14 January 1910) was the German chemist responsible for the improvement of the α-halogenation of carboxylic acids.

A student of Justus von Liebig, he was professor at Munich, Erlangen and Halle. He is also remembered for the Volhard method, a back-titration of halides with silver nitrate and thiocyanate still used in analytical chemistry.