Ludwig Wolff

{{Short description|German chemist (1857–1919)}}

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|birth_date = {{Birth date|df=y|1857|9|27}}

|birth_place = Neustadt an der Weinstraße, Rhine Province, Prussia

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|nationality = German

|death_date = {{death date and age|df=y|1919|2|24|1857|9|27}}

|death_place = Jena Germany

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|work_institution = University of Jena

|alma_mater = University of Strasbourg

|doctoral_advisor = Rudolph Fittig

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|known_for = Wolff-Kishner reduction, Wolff rearrangement

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Ludwig Wolff (27 September 1857 – 24 February 1919), born in Neustadt in Palatinate, was a German chemist.{{cite book|author=Jie Jack Li|title=Name Reactions for Homologation |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0e7k4jrPgygC&pg=PA258|accessdate=23 April 2017|date=4 May 2009|publisher=John Wiley & Sons|location=New Jersey|isbn=978-0-470-48703-7|page=258}}

He studied chemistry at the University of Strasbourg, where he received his Ph.D. from Rudolph Fittig in 1882. He became Professor of analytical chemistry at the University of Jena in 1891 and held this position till his death in 1919. In 1911 he published a new reaction now known as the Wolff-Kishner reduction. His name is also associated with the chemical reaction known as the Wolff rearrangement (1912).{{cite web |last=Morris |first=Peter | title=Chemist's Biographies | website=QMUL > Chemistry | url=http://www.chem.qmul.ac.uk/rschg/biog.html | accessdate=2017-04-23}}