Karl Friedrich Plattner

Carl Friedrich Plattner ( born January 2, 1800 Kleinwaltersdorf; † January 22, 1858 in Freiberg, also cited as: Karl Friedrich Plattner ) was a German hut watchers and chemists.

Life and work

As the son of a miner Plattner was born in 1800 in Kleinwaltersdorf (today district of Freiberg ). From 1815 to 1817 he studied at the Freiberg School; then he took at the Mining Academy Freiberg to study, which he finished in 1820.

The following years he worked in the Freiberg smelting works and devoted himself to research. His work The Probirkunst with the Lötrohre, which first appeared in 1835, a lot of attention and several times reprinted. To expand his knowledge in analytical chemistry, Plattner studied from 1838 to 1839 under Heinrich Rose in Berlin. Back in Freiberg in 1840 he Oberschiedswardein.

In 1842 he took over as successor to Wilhelm August Lampadius professor of metallurgy at the Freiberg Mining Academy. He led lectures for a Lötrohrprobierkunde and gave 1851 lectures on metallurgy.

Plattner has researched and published also has metallurgical roasting processes and developed a process for the extraction of gold by chlorine gas, which has been used worldwide. 1856 Plattner was Bergrat. Due to health problems he had to give up teaching in the same year.

Publications

• The Probirkunst with the Lötrohre. Barth, Leipzig 1835
• Contribution to the expansion of the Probirkunst. Engelhardt, Freiberg 1849
• The metallurgical roasting processes, considered theoretically. Engelhardt, Freiberg 1856
• Lectures on General Metallurgy / ed. by Theodor Richter. Engelhardt, Freiberg. Vol 1: 1860, Volume 2: 1863