Johann Christian Ruberg

Johann Christian Ruberg ( baptized on 4 September 1746 at Lüttgenrode Osterwieck, † September 5, 1807 in Ławki at Myslowitz ( Upper Silesia ) ) was a German overseer, inventor of the Department of Metallurgy.

Johann Christian Ruberg spent his childhood in Ilsenburg. He should study theology, and Christian Ernst, Count of Stolberg- Wernigerode donated to a scholarship, but the young Ruberg showed more interest in science. He he dealt with the trial and vagina art.

The princely sustained - plessische hut Kiß inspector gave him a post as Steiger in the Silesian coal mine Emanuelssegen at Pless.

At the same time, he has succeeded, in 1786 Wessela (district of Myslowitz ) through laboratory testing significantly improve the glass mass in the glassworks.

Johann Christian Ruberg invented around 1798 a special distillation process in muffle furnaces and so founded the Upper Silesian zinc industry.

He is buried in the Protestant cemetery in Lendzin. Bears his name since 2000, the elementary school No. 3 in this city.