Carl Bayer was born on 4 March 1847 in the Duchy of Upper and Lower Silesia in the Austrian Empire, which is now Poland. He attended Heidelberg University in Germany where he studied chemistry under Robert Bunsen from 1869-1871, the namesake of the Bunsen burner.
Carl Bayer was born on 4 March 1847 in the Duchy of Upper and Lower Silesia, which is now Poland. He studied chemistry at Heidelberg University in Germany under Robert Bunsen, who was a prominent chemist.