Oscar Heinrich Daniel Hinsberg (21 October 1857 – 13 February 1939) was a German chemist.
Hinsberg was born in Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia. In 1882 he obtained his doctorate in sciences at the University of Tübingen,Google Books Documents pour servir à l'histoire de l'Université de Genève, Volumes 3-4 later serving as a professor at the Universities of Freiburg and Geneva.Statement based on a translation of an equivalent article at the German Wikipedia.
He is known for research involving synthesis of oxindole, sulfone and thiophene.Google Books Elsevier's Dictionary of Chemoetymology In 1890 he introduced the "Hinsberg reaction", a test used for differentiation of primary, secondary and tertiary amines.
Publications Ueber Oxalsäurederivate des Metanitroparatoluidins und des Metaparadiamidotoluols, 1882.WorldCat Titles Ueber Oxalsäurederivate des Metanitroparatoluidins und des Metaparadiamidotoluols Ueber die Wirkung des Acetphenetidins, (with internist Alfred Kast 1856-1903). in Centralblatt für die medicinischen Wissenschaften, Berlin, 1887, 25: 145-148. - introduction of phenacetine.Bibliography of Alfred Kast @ Who Named It
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