Wolfgang Franz von Kobell
Franz Ritter von Hess Peter ( born July 19, 1803 in Munich, † November 11, 1882 ) was a German mineralogist and writer.
Life
Franz Hess Peter was the son of the painter Wilhelm Hess Peter. He attended grammar school until 1820, the (now ) Wilhelmsgymnasium Munich and studied at the University of Landshut at the chemist Johann Nepomuk Fuchs. In 1823 he was active in the Corps Isaria, today in Munich. He has worked in 1823 as an adjunct in the mineralogical State Collection in Munich and received his doctorate in 1824 at the University of Erlangen. He became Associate Professor in 1826 and Full Professor in 1834 at the relocated to Munich University of Munich. Already in 1827 he was elected to the Bavarian Academy of Sciences. After his father William had in 1833 obtained by King Ludwig I. the hereditary nobility, also Franz Ritter von Hess Peter could call. KOBELL regularly participated in hunting events at the Bavarian court, so with Maximilian II ( Bavaria). During his lifetime he was known as a dialect poet. He was a member of the forced lots society Munich since 1837. Hess Peter was married and had two sons. His grave is in the Old South Cemetery in Munich.
Scientific activity
KOBELL undertook during the reign of King Otto in Greece in 1834, a scientific trip there and was a corresponding member of several scientific societies and support high order. The mineral Kobellit, a bismuth - antimony - lead ore, was named after him. His works for the specific mineralogy as well as the mineral characteristics with chemical methods were prevalent in his time and has been translated several times. So KOBELL 1830 was the work characteristics of the minerals on the basis of their chemical behavior out the first comprehensive presentation in this field. 1835 followed the signs for the determination of minerals by chemical tests. KOBELL invented the Stauroskop, a device for monitoring the vibration directions of polarized light by crystals, and, after the introduction of the electroforming by Moritz Hermann von Jacobi of galvanic reproduction methods.
Together with his colleague Carl August von Steinheil he took in 1839 the first daguerreotypes in Germany, ie they photographed with a developed Steinheil Camera obscura the Glyptothek and the towers of the Frauenkirche. KOBELL led there a silver chloride papers for fixation of pictures and thus created the prototype of a photochemical process, which was later improved.
Scripture Generic Posts
KOBELL played zither and wrote stories in Upper Bavarian dialect, but also wrote in his 1779 born in Mannheim father Palatinate dialect. Kobell topics revolve around hunting, the love and wine. He is emerging as the author of the student song guys! .
His later dramatized and filmed several times Gschicht from Brandner Kasper appeared in 1871 in the Fliegende Blatter. This dialect story, in which a Bavarian locksmith and hunting assistant at the Tegernsee death at cards and means " Kerschgeist " cheat suggests, is his best-known legacy and has been three times (1949, 1975 and 2008) filmed.
Works
- The mineralogy. 2 In. Brandstetter, Leipzig 1858 ( digitized )
- Oberbayerische songs with their vocal ways. Collected on behalf of and with the support of His Majesty the King for the Bavarian mountain people and edited by Friedrich von Hess Peter. Illustrated by A. von Ramberg. Second edition. Munich, in 1871. Woodcut and publishing of Braun & Schneider [ that was first published in 1860 ]