Karl Friedrich August Rammelsberg

Carl ( Frederick ) Rammelsberg ( born April 1, 1813 in Berlin, † December 28, 1899 ) was a German chemist.

Life

He devoted himself first of pharmacy, studied from 1833 to 1837 natural sciences, especially chemistry and mineralogy in Berlin. After his doctorate, he completed his habilitation in 1840 in Berlin. In 1846 he received a professorship at the university. In 1850 he became a teacher of chemistry and mineralogy at the Royal Commercial Institute as successor to Adolf Baeyer and held in addition also lectures at the Mining Academy.

In 1874 he received the second full professor of chemistry at the University from 1881 to 1882 and was planning the construction of the Second Chemical Institute .. Until 1891 he was Head of the second chemical institute in the Bunsenstraße.

In 1855 he became a member of the Academy of Sciences in Berlin, and in 1859 a corresponding member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences.

He was a member in 1867 of the founding members of the German Chemical Society of Berlin and was elected in 1870, 1872 and 1874 to its Executive Board.

Work

Rammelsberg is considered as an authority in the field of mineralogical chemistry and also earned merits in the analysis. Several minerals were first analyzed by him as, among others, augite, and Franklinite tephroite. He is regarded as the first to like for more Magnesioferrit and Tachyhydrit.

His extensive mineralogical collection was acquired in 1879 in the Humboldt -Universität zu Berlin. 2009, many collections, including the minerals in the newly founded Museum of Natural History (Berlin) have been outsourced.

Works

  • Encyclopaedia of chemical part of the mineralogy ( Berl. 1841, 5 supplements 1843-53 ), which later called " Handbook of Mineral Chemistry " ( Leipz. 1860, 2nd edition, das. 1875, supplementary booklet 1886) appeared
  • Textbook of stoichiometry and general theoretical chemistry ( Berl. 1842)
  • Textbook of chemical metallurgy (ibid., 1850, 2nd edition, das. 1865)
  • Textbook of crystallography (ibid. 1852)
  • Handbook of Crystallographic Chemistry (ibid. 1855)
  • Handbook of crystallography and physical chemistry ( Leipz. 1881-82, 2 vols )
  • Outline of Chemistry (5th edition, Berl. 1881)
  • Rudiments of quantitative mineralogical and metallurgical analytical chemistry (ibid. 1845)
  • Guidelines for the qualitative ( 7th ed, das. 1885) and the quantitative chemical analysis ( 4th edition, das. 1886)
  • Elements of Crystallography (ibid. 1883)
  • Chemical Essays 1838-1888 (ibid. 1888), among others See " Karl Friedrich R. ," Festschrift ( Berl. 1887).

Contributions in the annals of physics

  • About the behaving Cyan for cadmium and several Doppelcyanüre in general; of C.Rammelsberg
  • XII.Mineralogisch - chemical notes on Stilpnomelane, sulphate of alumina and sulphate of iron oxide; of C. Rammelsberg
  • As to the connection end Jodzinks with alkaline Jodüren; of C. Rammelsberg
  • Concerning the composition of the Berthierits of Bräunsdorf near Freiberg; of C. Rammelsberg
  • The chemical composition of the Boracits as that of the compounds of the Borsäuremit magnesia at all; of C. Rammelsberg

Honors

The mineral Rammelsbergite is named after him.

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