Friedrich Ludwig Knapp

Friedrich Ludwig Knapp ( born February 22, 1814 Michel city; † June 8, 1904 in Braunschweig ) was a German chemist. He is considered a master of chemical technology.

Family

Just the son of a privy councilor Johann Friedrich Knapp and his wife Elisabethe Christine, nee Louis was ( 1787-1862 ). On 1 June 1841 he married Katharina Elisabeth in Darmstadt Liebig ( 1819-1890 ), the sister of the chemist Justus von Liebig. The marriage produced four children together emerged, including the economist Georg Friedrich Knapp.

Life

Friedrich Ludwig Knapp attended high school in Darmstadt and graduated from 1832-35 there a pharmacist teaching, before moving to the study of chemistry at the Justus Liebig University of Giessen at the Ludwig after casting. He habilitated in 1838 and received in 1841 the professorship of technology. Just went in 1853 as a professor of the Faculty of state economic management and operating officer of the Royal Porcelain Manufactory in Munich in 1863 and was followed by an appointment as Professor of Industrial Chemistry at the Carolinum in Brunswick. His son, Georg Friedrich commented: "At the end of September, I came for the first time to Braunschweig My parents lived in the New Road in a very uncomfortable apartment because no other was free The old Low German city I liked very much.. . " Soon after, the family moved Nearly a representative apartment in the Vieweghaus on Castle Square, where they finally came to live more than 40 years.

Work

Knapp has several pioneering studies in the field of chemical technology, notably very important work on the preparation of leather, supplied; its main power but the excellent textbook of chemical technology was (Braunschweig 1847), which science and practice linked together in so far unsurpassed way.

Knapp also issued Technological wall panels ( Muench. 1855-63, 16 Lfgn. ) And translated the first part of John Percy's Metallurgy ( Braunschweig 1862).