Friedrich Rathgen

Friedrich Wilhelm Rathgen ( born June 2, 1862 in Eckernförde, † November 19, 1942 in Berlin) was a German chemist and the first Director of the Chemical Laboratory of the Royal Museums in Berlin.

Life

Rathgen was the son of businessman Carl Rathgen. He first attended a private school and children since 1871, for lack of a secondary school in Eckernforde, the grammar school in Lübeck. There he laid in 1881 from a high school. He then studied natural sciences in Göttingen, Berlin and Marburg and finished his studies in 1886. His oral exam to exam rigorosum he put the end of 1885 at Max Bauer (mineralogy ), Theodor Zincke (chemistry ), Franz reporting (Physics) and Julius Bergman (philosophy) from the dissertation followed on 30 June 1886.

Since Rathgen was patterned as unfit, he offered no military service from - what he was doing really - and initially took a job as an unpaid assistant to Hans Heinrich Landolt private in Berlin. Shortly thereafter he was paid lecture assistant.

1888 Rathgen, who was now known for his work in the preservation, investigation and analysis of historical objects and museum objects field, was appointed at the age of 26 years as Head of the Chemical Laboratory of the then Royal Museums. This activity he filled out until his retirement in 1927.

The Rathgen Research Laboratory, a countrywide, scientific institute of the National Museums in Berlin / Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, is named after Friedrich Rathgen. It performs archaeometric investigations.

Works

• The preservation of ancient finds: with consideration of ethnographic and applied art collection objects (1926 )
• The maintenance of public still images (1926 )
• Weathering and preservation of building stones: Articles for question d stone protection ( 1934)
• Leaflet for stone protection ( 1939)