Andreas von Antropoff

Roman Andreas von Antropoff (born August 16, 1878 in Reval , Estonia Governorate , † June 2, 1956 in Bonn ) was a German chemist and university professor from Estonia. In 1926 he coined the term neutronium before the discovery of the neutron to name a hypothetical chemical element with the atomic number  0, which he placed at the top of the periodic table .

Childhood and youth

His father was Roman von Antropoff, a lawyer and manor owner, and his mother was Sophie née Koch. On his father's side, he should be of Charles XIII and Erik Wasa . He had the following siblings: Roman Andreas, Elisabeth Molly, Sergei, Nikolai Alexander and Karl Alexander von Antropoff.

From 1889 to 1892 he attended the St. Maria Cathedral School, in 1893 the Lajus School and later the Realschule in Reval. He then studied mechanical engineering from 1897 to 1899 and chemistry from 1899 to 1904 at the Polytechnic Institute in Riga. To continue studying chemistry, he went to Heidelberg University from 1904 to 1907 , where he was awarded a Dr. phil. received his doctorate. He then worked for a year with William Ramsay at the University of London .

Career

Andreas von Antropoff was assistant and private lecturer from 1908 to 1915 and lecturer for inorganic chemistry at the Polytechnic Institute in Riga from 1911 to 1915. In the First World War he was arrested in July 1916 on charges of espionage and imprisoned in Saint Petersburg until March 1917 . After a few months of military service in the Petersburg copper rolling mills, he was arrested again in Saint Petersburg in 1918, this time by the Bolsheviks . With the peace of Brest-Litowsk he was freed again and accepted the call to the Technical University in Karlsruhe, where he worked from 1918 to 1924 as a private lecturer and professor. In 1924 he received the full chair for physical chemistry at the University of Bonn , where he died in 1956.

politics

Since 1924 Antropoff was a member of the German National People's Party (DNVP). From 1926 to 1933 he was also a member of the Stahlhelm, Bund der Frontsoldaten . In July 1932 he publicly called for the election of the NSDAP . In 1933 he became a member of the NSDAP and the SS . He was also a member of the National Socialist teachers' association . In 1933 he hoisted the swastika flag on the main building of the University of Bonn.

family

Andreas von Antropoff married Erika Pauline Alice née Germann on December 11, 1926 in Spremberg .

literature

• Herrmann AL Degener : Degeners Who is it? , Berlin 1935, p. 26.
• Michael Grüttner : Biographical Lexicon on National Socialist Science Policy (= Studies on Science and University History. Volume 6). Synchron, Heidelberg 2004, ISBN 3-935025-68-8 , p. 15 f.
• Hans-Paul Höpfner: The University of Bonn in the Third Reich. Academic biographies under National Socialist rule (= Academica Bonnensia, publications of the archive of the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Bonn, Volume 12), Bouvier, Bonn 1999, pp. 495–498, ISBN 3-416-02904-6 .

Web links

Baltic Historical Commission (ed.): Entry on Andreas von Antropoff. In: BBLD - Baltic Biographical Lexicon digital

Individual evidence

1. ↑ A. von Antropoff: A new form of the periodic system of the elements. . In: Z. Angew. Chem. . 39, No. 23, 1926, pp. 722-725. doi : 10.1002 / anie.19260392303 .
2. ↑ Philip J. Stewart: A century on from Dmitrii Mendeleev: tables and spirals, noble gases and Nobel prizes . In: Foundations of Chemistry . 9, No. 3, October 2007, pp. 235–245. doi : 10.1007 / s10698-007-9038-x .
3. ^ Baltic Historical Commission (ed.): Entry on the novel by Antropoff. In: BBLD - Baltic Biographical Lexicon digital
4. ↑ Michael Grüttner: Biographical Lexicon on National Socialist Science Policy . Heidelberg 2004, p. 15.