Pregl's birthplace onGosposka ulica /Herrengasse ("Lords' Street"), Ljubljana
Pregl was born inLjubljana withinAustria-Hungary to a Slovene-speaking father and German-speaking mother. He was baptizedFriedrich Michael Raimund Pregl.[1] He died inGraz, Austria in 1930.[2][3]
Pregl started his career aschemist after he studied medicine at theUniversity of Graz.[4] With his focus onphysiology and especially chemical physiology, he suffered from the limitations ofquantitativeorganicmicroanalysis. The small quantities of substances he obtained during the research ofbile acid made it necessary to improve the process ofelemental analysis by reducing the necessary components. At the end of his research, he had lowered the minimal amount of substance necessary for the analysis process by a factor of 50[citation needed]. He invited chemists to learn his method of elemental analysis, so that the method was soon widely accepted.
In 1950, the department of theUniversity of Graz where Fritz Pregl had worked was named theInstitute of Medical Chemistry and Pregl Laboratory. Streets in Graz, Innsbruck, Vienna and Klagenfurt were named after him. In Slovenia,Pregl Awards have been bestowed annually since 2007 by theNational Institute of Chemistry for the research work and for outstandingdoctorates. Slovenian pupils are conferred Pregl Recognition Awards, whereas secondary school students are conferred Pregl Citations for excellent results in national competitions in chemistry. A square in Ljubljana is named after Pregl.[5] TheFritz Pregl Prize has been awarded annually since 1931 in chemistry by theAustrian Academy of Sciences from the funds left at its disposal by Pregl.
^Učakar, Ivanka; Žiga Rangus (January 2011)."Friderik Pregl"(PDF).Slovenski knjižnično-muzejski megakviz (in Slovenian). Vol. 10/11. Ljubljana City Library. Archived fromthe original(PDF) on May 20, 2023.
H. Lieb (1950). "Zum Gedächtnis an Fritz Pregl, den Begründer der quantitativen organischen Mikroanalyse (1869–1930)".Chemistry and Materials Science.35 (2–3):123–129.doi:10.1007/BF01460581.S2CID101608428.
