Anastasios Christomanos

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Christomanos as Heidelberg Rhenane, 1862
Anastasios Christomanos

Anastasios Christomanos ( Greek Ἀναστάσιος Χρηστομάνος , born March 22, 1841 in Melnik (Bulgaria) ; † October 15, 1906 in Athens ) was a Greek chemist and rector of the University of Athens.

Life

Christomanos was born in what is now Melnik, Bulgaria, and came to Vienna in his earliest youth , where he attended the Polytechnic in 1858. Further studies followed in Gießen , Berlin, Karlsruhe and 1861/62 in Heidelberg . His academic teachers in Heidelberg included Robert Bunsen , Georg Ludwig Carius and Emil Erlenmeyer (chemistry) and the physicist Gustav Robert Kirchhoff . After graduating as Dr. phil. on Bunsen's recommendation he entered the laboratory for aniline dyes in Frankfurt, was then appointed to head a large chemical factory in Moscow and returned to Greece in 1862. In 1863, when he was only 22 years old, he became a private lecturer in general chemistry at the University of Athens , in 1866 associate professor and in 1869 full professor. From 1896 he was rector of the university. He was responsible for the construction of the Palaion Chimi (c) on and developed an apparatus for determining carbon dioxide . He repeatedly represented Greece at international chemical congresses, for example in Vienna and Budapest in 1889, in Leipzig in 1892, in Milan in 1895, in Paris in 1900, in Berlin in 1903 and in Rome in 1906.

From 1860 Christomanos was a member of the Corps Saxonia Karlsruhe , from 1862 of the Corps Rhenania Heidelberg .

He was with Athena Lindenmayer, a daughter of Dr. Anton Lindenmayer, personal physician to King Otto of Greece , married. Her son Constantin Christomanos was the reader and Greek teacher of Empress Elisabeth of Austria-Hungary , her son Alexandros was a medical doctor. Nephew was the politician and tourism pioneer Theodor Christomannos .

Publications

  • Echereidion Chimeias
  • Introduction to Chemistry (1871)
  • To the knowledge of iodine trichloride ; Athens 1877
  • Analysis of chrome iron stone ; Athens 1877

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary in the Vossische Zeitung, morning edition, October 23, 1906
  2. ↑ University of Athens - Department of Chemistry: Photo of Old Chemistry Building ( Memento from October 3, 1999 in the web archive archive.today )
  3. ^ Johann Peter Blank (Ed.): Large Corps List of Saxonia Karlsruhe , Karlsruhe 1973
  4. ↑ Kösener Corps Lists 1910, 119/541
personal data
SURNAME Christomanos, Anastasios
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Χρηστομάνος, Αναστάσιος (Greek)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Greek chemist and rector of the University of Athens
DATE OF BIRTH March 22, 1841
PLACE OF BIRTH Melnik (Bulgaria)
DATE OF DEATH October 15, 1906
Place of death Athens