Adolf Kistner

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Adolf Kistner (born July 15, 1878 in Mannheim ; † November 20, 1940 in Heidelberg ) was a cultural historian from Baden who devoted himself particularly to the history of technology.

life and work

He attended school in Mannheim and then studied in Heidelberg, where he passed the state examination for higher education in 1900. During his internship he married Antonie Julie Reinhardt from Stuttgart in 1902 in Sinsheim . In 1904 he became a professor at the grammar school in Sinsheim, shortly afterwards he switched to the grammar school in Wertheim and finally in 1914 to Karlsruhe , where he taught for 22 years. He retired early in 1936 for health reasons. In 1939 he moved to Heidelberg, where he promised a recovery and a peaceful retirement, but died a little later in the Heidelberg mental hospital.

In addition to his teaching activities, Kistner has written several books and numerous essays on the regional history of culture and technology in Baden. He was particularly interested in the history of watch production in the Black Forest . Based on his description of the historical clock collection in Furtwangen , which appeared in 1923, he completed by 1927 with "The Black Forest Clock" the first comprehensive work on the history of clock making in the Black Forest. His individual contributions in various series of publications also deal with the Baron von Drais as the inventor of the periscope and its walking machines, Goethe's physical apparatus, the aeronaut Sebastian Bittorf and the history of bombing from aircraft.

Works

  • The calendar of the Jews, Karlsruhe 1905
  • Physics and Chemistry in World War I, Lahr 1917
  • The fine construction of matter, Karlsruhe 1923
  • History of Physics, Berlin and Leipzig 1923
  • The historical watch collection Furtwangen, Furtwangen 1923
  • German Masters of Science and Technology, Volumes 1 and 2, Verlag Josef Kösel & Friederich Pustet, Munich 1925
  • The Black Forest clock, Karlsruhe 1927
  • The maintenance of the natural sciences in Mannheim at the time of Karl Theodor, Mannheimer Altertumsverein, Mannheim 1930

literature

  • Sigfrid von Weiher: Adolf Kistner, the researcher of the Black Forest clock industry , in: Badische Heimat 30. year 1950, issue 1/2

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The maintenance of the natural sciences in Mannheim at the time of Karl Theodor. (No longer available online.) Formerly in the original ; Retrieved on July 30, 2015 (digitized version with full text from Mannheim University Library ).  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / goobi.bib.uni-mannheim.de  
personal data
SURNAME Kistner, Adolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Baden cultural historian who has dedicated himself particularly to the history of technology
DATE OF BIRTH July 15, 1878
PLACE OF BIRTH Mannheim
DATE OF DEATH November 20, 1940
Place of death Heidelberg