Richard Abegg

Richard Abegg ( born January 9, 1869 in Gdansk, † April 3, 1910 in Ticino ( Pomerania ), today Cieszyn in Koszalin ) was a German chemist.

Life

Richard Abegg was the son of the Privy Council Admiralty Wilhelm Abegg (1834-1913) and his wife Margarethe Friedenthal. His brothers were the Prussian politician Wilhelm Abegg and administrative lawyer Waldemar Abegg. Richard Abegg died in an accident involving a hot air balloon.

Academic Achievements

After schooling of Wilhelm Gymnasium in Berlin Abegg enrolled at the Christian -Albrechts -University of Kiel for Physical Chemistry. Later he moved to Tübingen, where he was a member of the Academic connection hedgehog Tübingen, and then to Berlin. There he earned his doctorate at July 19, 1891 with Professor August Wilhelm von Hofmann with the work over the chrysene and its derivatives. He then worked as assistant to Professors Wilhelm Ostwald ( Leipzig), Svante Arrhenius (Stockholm) and Walther Nernst (Göttingen).

1899 Abegg lecturer and Head of the Chemical Institute in Wroclaw. A year later, he qualified as an associate professor at the university. Clara Always True studied and graduated with him. In 1900 he was elected a member of the Scholars Academy Leopoldina. In 1909 he became a full professor at the Technical University of Wroclaw. Together with his colleague Guido Bodlaender he published in those years, the electric affinity, a new principle of inorganic chemistry.

Beginning in 1901, Abegg was also co-editor of the Journal of Electrochemistry, the members of the German newspaper Electrochemical Society, works.

Abegg introduced the concept of the electric affinity in chemistry and laid the foundation for the Handbook of Inorganic Chemistry ( 1905-1939 ). 1904 presented Abegg on the valence, according to the result in the maximum positive and maximum negative electrovalency an element along the number 8. It is also called Abegg'sche rule.

Airship

Abegg was also involved in photography and aeronautics. He was founder and first Chairman of the Silesian Association of Aviation in Wroclaw. He also held the position by an assessor, the board of the German aeronaut Association. Abegg died in an accident with the balloon: On landing after a ride on the balloon Silesia the passengers including his wife Lina were ( also balloon guide) spun out of the basket, the balloon with Abegg pulled away and then fell from a great height from. Abegg died on the same day his serious fall injury ( skull fracture ).

Works

• About the chrysene and its derivatives. Too bad, Berlin 1891
• Guidance for calculating volumetric analysis. Grass, Barth & Co, Wroclaw 1900
• The theory of electrolytic dissociation. Enke, Stuttgart 1903