Adolph von Gernet
Richard Adolph von Gernet (born April 14, 1863 in Sellenküll ( Seljaküla ) near Oru , Estonia, † January 4, 1942 in Dingolfing , Bavaria ) was a metallurgist.
Life
He attended the Knights and Cathedral School in Reval from 1876 to 1881 and studied in Dorpat from 1881 to 1886 . He was initially head of Werner von Siemens' private laboratory in Berlin. In 1889 he built a gold panning facility in Yekaterinburg in the Urals. In 1892 he became the company's representative in America.
Around 1895 he followed his brother Rudolf to South Africa, where he became director of the Rand Central Ore Reduction Works gold mine . He patented a process for the extraction of copper that later became known as the Siemens-Halske electric precipitation process . In the 1890s he and John Hays Hammond investigated the gold content in seawater off the coast of Cape Town . In 1898 he became the first Russian vice consul in Johannesburg. In 1901 he traveled through Peru and Bolivia. He later lived in Brussels .
The From Gernet Copper Limited was liquidated in October 1905th
Adolph von Gernet married Leonilla Fürstin von Mestscherski (* 1871) in 1898, with whom he had a daughter, Alexandra von Reitzenstein (1900–1965).
Publications
- About oxyhydrogen explosion. Dorpat, 1887 (with Arthur von Oettingen )
Web links
- Baltic Historical Commission (ed.): Entry on Adolph von Gernet. In: BBLD - Baltic Biographical Lexicon digital
Individual evidence
- ^ The Gernets of Europe. In: The Hissem-Montague Family. Archived from the original on May 3, 2007 ; accessed on March 30, 2014 (English).
- ↑ John Hays Hammond: The Autobiography of John Hays Hammond. 1935, p. 105 ( Google Books ).
- ↑ http://cdigital.dgb.uanl.mx/la/1080046951_C/1080047210_T78/1080047210_152.pdf P. 960
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gernet, Adolph von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Gernet, Richard Adolph von (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Metallurg |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 14, 1863 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Sellenkull, Oru |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 4, 1942 |
| Place of death | Dingolfing , Bavaria |