Fritz Arndt (1885-1969)

German chemist, born in Hamburg. He was professor at Breslau, where together with his student Bernd Eistert he developed the homologation of carboxylic acids through diazoketones, the Arndt-Eistert synthesis (1935).

Because of his Jewish origin he had to leave Germany in 1933. After a period in Oxford he settled at Istanbul University, where he organized the modern teaching of chemistry in Turkey and wrote textbooks in Turkish. He returned to Hamburg in 1955. He also studied tautomerism and the structure of heterocyclic compounds.