Albin Kurtenacker

Albin Kurtenacker (born August 12, 1886 in Unter-Themaau , Lower Austria ; † April 1, 1962 in Wiesbaden ) was a chemist ( analytical chemistry ) and professor at the TU Brno .

Albin Kurtenacker

Life

Kurtenacker was born in Unter-Themaau in 1886. From 1904 he studied chemistry at the Technical University of Brno and from 1906 at the Technical University of Vienna and at the Technical University in Delft. From 1908 he was an assistant at the TH Brno, where he received his doctorate in 1911 and completed his habilitation in 1914 . In 1915 he became a private lecturer in Brno. During the First World War he served as an engineer officer in the Austrian army from 1915 to 1918. In 1923 he became associate professor and in 1929 full professor for analytical chemistry and headed the inorganic department. Fritz Stastny , the inventor of Styrofoam , was one of his well-known doctoral sons. In 1933 he received his doctorate degree on the subject of disintegration processes in polythionate solutions. received his doctorate. In 1939 he was dismissed from his university position by the National Socialist government. After fleeing to West Germany, he worked at the Fresenius Chemical Laboratory in Wiesbaden from 1946. His father worked there as a student and assistant from 1877 to 1879. Albin Kurtenacker gave lectures on inorganic and analytical chemistry as part of the training for chemical technicians. From 1947 he was entrusted with the re-edition of the " Fresenius' Zeitschrift für analytische Chemie . Founded by Remigius Fresenius. Edited by Wilhelm Fresenius and Albin Kurtenacker". In 1952, to the great regret of all students, Albin Kurtenacker gave up the lectures again, as the work with the publication of the magazine occupied him to the full.

He initially dealt with sulfur compounds, then with the oxidation of hydroxylamine and evidence for hydroxylamine and hydrazine . In 1931/32 he developed a method of measurement analysis for persulfate ions and in the 1930s he dealt with polythionic acids and their salts. He also dealt with fluorides, their double salts and the measurement-analytical fluorine determination.

From 1947 he published Fresenius' magazine for analytical chemistry . The 152nd volume from 1956 is dedicated to Kurtenacker on his 70th birthday.

Fonts

• Analytical chemistry of the oxygen acids in sulfur, 1938 and over 60 other publications as well as collaboration in various specialist literature and chemical reference works. Among other things, Abbeg's Handbook of Inorganic Chemistry and the Handbook of Analytical Chemistry by R. Fresenius and Gerhart Jander .

literature

• Winfried R. Pötsch (lead), Annelore Fischer, Wolfgang Müller: Lexicon of important chemists . Harri Deutsch 1989, ISBN 3-8171-1055-3 , p. 254.
• Fresenius, Wilhelm and Kurtenacker, Albin (eds.), Fresenius' magazine for analytical chemistry . Founded by Remigius Fresenius, vol. 152, Berlin, Heidelberg, Munich 1956, pp. 1–2.