Adolf Cluss (agricultural chemist)
Adolf Cluss (born June 6, 1862 in Heilbronn , † December 22, 1930 in Vienna ) was a German agricultural chemist and brewing scientist.
Life
Adolf Cluss came from the long-established Heilbronn entrepreneur and brewer family Cluss . After attending the Oberlyceum in Reutlingen and the humanistic grammar school in Heilbronn , he began to study chemistry at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich, along with other natural sciences . In 1882 he was reciprocated in the Corps Suevia Munich . As an inactive , he switched to the Kaiser-Wilhelms-Universität Strasbourg and the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg . In 1886 he was promoted to Dr. phil. PhD. In the same year he became an assistant at the chemical laboratory of the Hohenheim Agricultural Academy . In 1888 he went to the Friedrichs-Universität Halle and became an assistant at the agricultural chemical test station of the Chamber of Agriculture of the Province of Saxony . From there he undertook study visits to the brewery test station in Berlin and Copenhagen . In 1893 he completed his habilitation in agricultural chemistry at the university. In 1902 he was appointed director of the agricultural chemical research station in Halle. In 1904 he accepted a position at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences in Vienna . His main areas of work were the use and assessment of barley as well as beer brewing and wine production .
Fonts (selection)
- The alcohol question from the physiological, social and economic point of view. Parey, Berlin 1906.
- Distillery (= library of the entire agriculture. 38, ZDB -ID 986282-1 ). Jänecke, Hannover 1908, (2nd revised edition, ibid 1922).
- as editor: paperback for the brewing and malting industry. 2nd Edition. Self-published by the Austrian Research Station and Academy for the Brewing and Malting Industry, Vienna 1913.
- Beer and our people's food in the World War. Braumüller, Vienna et al. 1916.
Web links
- Entry on Adolf Cluss in the Catalogus Professorum Halensis
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kösener corps lists 1910, 178/768.
- ↑ Habilitation thesis: The pure yeast and the use of antiseptics, especially the fluorine compounds, in the distillery. A critical study following the author's earlier work on the value and effect of Antisepticis in promoting and securing fermentation. Unger, Berlin 1893.
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SURNAME | Cluss, Adolf |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German agricultural chemist and brewing scientist |
DATE OF BIRTH | June 6, 1862 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Heilbronn |
DATE OF DEATH | December 22, 1930 |
Place of death | Vienna |