Hantzsch
# Hantzsch

Hantzsch is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

* Arthur Rudolf Hantzsch (1857–1935), German chemist
   * Hantzsch–Widman nomenclature, type of systematic chemical nomenclature for naming heterocyclic parent hydrides
   * Hantzsch pyridine synthesis, multi-component organic reaction between an aldehyde a β-keto ester and a nitrogen donor
   * Hantzsch pyrrole synthesis, the chemical reaction of β-ketoesters with ammonia and α-haloketones to give substituted pyrroles
* Bernhard Hantzsch (1875–1911), German ornithologist, Arctic researcher and writer, who discovered two Icelandic bird subspecies
   * Hantzsch Island, uninhabited island in the Qikiqtaaluk Region of Nunavut, Canada named after Bernhard Hantzsch
