His father was Roman von Antropoff, a lawyer and owner of a
manor house and his mother was Sophie Emilie von Antropoff. Antropoff had four brothers and one sister: • Roman Andreas von Antropoff • Elisabeth Molly von Antropoff • Sergei von Antropoff • Nikolai Alexander von Antropoff • Karl Alexander von Antropoff From 1889 to 1892 Andreas von Antropoff attended the Domschule of the
St Mary's Cathedral, Tallinn, in 1893 the Lajusschule and later the
secondary school in Reval. He studied
mechanical engineering at the Polytechnic School in
Riga from 1897 to 1899 and
chemistry from 1899 to 1904. From 1904 to 1907 he studied chemistry in
Heidelberg, where he graduated as a
Doctor of Science (Dr. phil. nat.). In 1907 and 1908 he worked as a researcher at the
University College London under
William Ramsay. From 1908 to 1915 he was assistant and associate professor and from 1911 to 1915 lecturer for
inorganic chemistry at the Riga Polytechnic School. In 1911 he made his
Magister degree at the
Saint Petersburg State University and was department head at the Central Chamber for Measures and Weights in
Saint Petersburg. In 1916 he was arrested on allegations of espionage in connection with
World War I and imprisoned from July 1916 until March 1917 in Saint Petersburg. From September 1917 until January 1918, he served in the military. In 1918 he was again arrested for political reasons by
Bolsheviks of the
Petrograd Soviet. In 1918 Antropoff was appointed to the Technical College in
Karlsruhe, from where he went to serve in Bonn as a full professor and department head for
physical chemistry from 1924. Andreas von Antropoff married Erika Pauline Alice von Antropoff (born Erika Germann in
Spremberg) on 11 December 1926. Antropoff became dean of the faculty of mathematics and natural sciences in
Bonn University and a member of the Senate. An active
national socialist, he was the first to hoist the
swastika flag at the university in 1933. In 1944 he took over the management of the
Agricultural Research Institute in
Ebstorf,
Uelzen county. As a result of his Nazi past, he was suspended from office in 1945 and retired in 1948. ==Antropoff's periodic table==