Karl Seubert

Karl Friedrich Otto Seubert ( born April 6, 1851 in Karlsruhe, † January 31, 1942 in Hannover ) was a German chemist, pharmacist, university teacher and writer.

Life

Karl Seubert was the son of Moritz August Seubert, professor of zoology and botany in Karlsruhe, and Mary Seubert. After 1866, the school graduated, he completed a pharmacist - administration in Mannheim, where he graduated in 1869 with the assistant exam. He first worked as an assistant in the pharmacy by Ludwig Leiner in Konstanz, until 1870 broke the Franco-German War, where he served one year as a soldier and was awarded the rank of sergeant. After the service, he continued to work at Leiner until he study pharmacy in Karlsruhe started in the winter semester 1872/73, from which he graduated two years later with the pharmaceutical state exam.

In 1874, he was helping out lecture assistant Lothar Meyer; In 1875 he was awarded for three semesters a job as an assistant in a technical- analytical laboratory in Breslau. Then he returned to Karlsruhe before he started in 1878 in Tübingen with Lothar Meyer with his promotion. Finally, in January 1881 he presented his habilitation thesis.

He worked in the episode continues as assistant to Meyer in Tübingen and was built in July 1885 Associate Professor with tenure for analytical and pharmaceutical chemistry, as this was a few months back was rejected as first assistant and associate professor according to its intended dual function. After 1893 his associate professorship was converted into a -budgetary point.

In 1895 he accepted an appointment as Professor of Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry at the Technical University of Hanover ( as successor to Karl herb), a position he held until 1921. There he dealt among other things with the "Development of the Periodic Table of Elements " and the " determination of the atomic weights of the platinum metals ".