Draft:Simon Zeisel

Austrian Jewish chemist?; born April 11, 1854, in Lomnitz, Moravia; studied at the University of Vienna (Ph.D. 1879) and the German gymnasium of Brünn. In 1887, he started working at the same university as a privat-docent in chemistry. In 1892, he was hired as an assistant professor of general and agricultural chemistry at the Vienna Agricultural High School, where he rose to the rank of full professor seven years later (1899). Zeisel is the author of "Die Chemie in Gemeinverständlicher Darstellung" (Vienna, 1890) in addition to monographs in technical publications.

Bibliography: Eisenberg, Vienna, 1893, Das Geistige Wien, ii. 574.