Austrian chemist; born at Vienna April 5, 1865. He received his education at the gymnasium and university of his native city, and was graduated as doctor of philosophy in 1886, becoming a member of the university of the Austrian capital as privat-docent in chemistry in 1890.
Blau has contributed essays to the "Monatshefte für Chemie der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften" ("Studien über Pyridinabkömmlinge," "Neuerungen beim Gebräuchlichen Verbrennungs-Verfahren"); the "Berichte der Deutschen Chemischen Gesellschaft in Berlin" ("Zur Constitution des Nicotin"), etc.