Karl Samuel Leberecht Hermann

Carl Samuel Leberecht Hermann ( born January 20, 1765 in Königerode, resin, † September 1, 1846 in Beautiful Beck on the Elbe ) was a German chemist and chemical manufacturer.

Life and work

Hermann took over after his pharmacy education in Halberstadt 1792, the pharmacy in Wieliczka near Magdeburg. In studies of the waste from the Royal Saltworks at Beautiful Beck, he realized that this waste can serve as starting material for chemical products. From 1794 Hermann won from these wastes with his company Hermania potassium and magnesium salts and hydrochloric acid. He was the first in Germany, the Leblanc process for the production of soda a. Hermann discovered in 1817 independently and almost simultaneously with the German chemist Friedrich Stromeyer ( 1776-1835 ), the element cadmium ( Cd). However, it is not made ​​this discovery, in contrast to the zinc carbonate Strohmeyer but the analysis of zinc oxide.

Major works

  • About the Silesian zinc oxide, and therein found very likely still unknown metal, in: Gilbert's Annals of Physics 59, 1818, pp. 95f; . 66, 1820, pp. 285-289.

Miscellaneous

In 2004 from the two former Schönebecker schools " Dr. Tolberg " and " In Malzmühlenfeld " resulting new school complex, was christened in honor of Hermann on the name " Dr. -Carl -Hermann High School ".

Swell

  • Carl Samuel Hermann in Magdeburg Biographical Encyclopedia
  • Anonymous: From the Royal Prussian chemical factory into a modern service. Secure Chemistry Research ( BG Chemie ) 59 (4 ), pp. 27 (2007 ), PDF
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