Curt Netto
Curt Adolph net ( born August 21, 1847 in Freiberg, † February 7, 1909 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German metallurgist and author. He is considered a pioneer for the industrial utilization of the aluminum.
Life
Net came from a mining officials, family, his father was Gustav Adolph net. He attended in Freiberg boys public school and, following the transfer of his father as a mountain juror in Schneeberg the local public school. 1860 net returned back to Freiberg to continue his education at the Freiberg Gymnasium. In 1864 he was enrolled at the Mining Academy Freiberg and joined the Corps Saxo - Borussia Freiberg. After finishing the studies in 1869 and a volunteer military service in Schneeberg convening followed in the German -Prussian War, in which he was decorated with the Iron Cross, Second Class.
From 1871, the net got a job as a chemist at his brother- in Geitnerschen enamel colors work in Schneeberg. In 1873, net was appointed director of the lead and silver mines in Kosaka on the island of Honshu. During his tenure, which lasted until 1877 modernized the net mining equipment and introduced new Verhüttungsmethoden.
After the privatization of the mines of Kosaka net was appointed lecturer in metallurgy and in 1878 professor of mining and metallurgy at the University of Tokyo in 1877. In 1873 was net of the founders of the German Society of Natural History and Ethnology of Asia (OAG ). Between 1882 and 1883 he took leave of one year at the beginning of a research trip to Europe, Mexico and the United States.
In June 1885, the Tennō it received the award of the Order of the Rising Sun. After he had finished his teaching career in November 1885 net 1886 traveled back to Europe because over the reputation of the European culture and the importance of the "Contract foreigners" (O- yatoi gaikokujin ) had undergone a change of mood in the Japanese population. After his return, he was forced to part of his considerable collection of Japanese woodblock prints for sale, as he had lost his savings in a bank failure in 1886 in Canton. Many of them went to the art collector and dealer Siegfried Bing (aka Samuel Bing) in Paris and contributed significantly to the emergence of Japonism in.
1886 net worked in Paris at Consul Martin Michael Bair. Employed by Krupp Between 1887 and 1889, he developed a new patented process for aluminum production over the sodium reduction of cryolite, which, however, quickly became ineffective by the development of fused salt electrolysis. 1889 net was appointed on the recommendation of Clemens Winkler, since 1883 the Supervisory Board of Metallgesellschaft in Frankfurt am Main, head of the technical department of the Metallgesellschaft. After the spin-off of the Metallurgical Society in 1897 net stood together with Richard de Neufville before the company for which he developed the abbreviation Lurgi.
1899 married net. His marriage to Emily Nothwang three children. In 1902, net laid down for health reasons, the Board shops and joined the Supervisory Board. From 1906 net stayed for curative treatments of ill health due to regularly Solbadhotel Bad Nauheim. Curt net Adolph died on February 7, 1909 in Frankfurt am Main.
Writings
Net written several Montanist and metallurgical specialist publications, in particular based on his activities in Japan and are the situation there. From his travels to Japan, he brought with drawings and sketches. His most important writings are the art and cultural history works:
- Paper butterflies from Japan. After sketches of the author illustrated by Paul Bender. T. O. Weigel, Leipzig, 1888.
- Japanese humor ( with Gottfried Wagener ), Brockhaus, Leipzig 1901. ( Digitized )