Antoine Corneille Oudemans

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Antoine Corneille Oudemans , official abbreviation AC Oudemans Jr. , (born April 19, 1831 in Amsterdam ; † June 7, 1895 in Delft ) was a chemist, university professor, university director, co-founder and co-editor of the first journal for chemistry in the Netherlands and the independent now part of Belgium.

Life

He was the third son of the Dutch teacher, poet and philosopher Antonie Cornelis Oudemans (1798–1874) and eight years later had a sister. His brothers were the botanist and mycologist Corneille Antoine Jean Abraham Oudemans (1825-1906) and the astronomer Jean Abraham Chrétien Oudemans (1827-1906). One nephew was the zoologist and acarologist Anthonie Cornelis Oudemans (1858-1943).

He was three years old when his father and his small family moved to the Dutch East Indies for six years to work as the director of a primary school in Weltevreden near Batavia (today: Jakarta) . Back in the Netherlands, the family moved to Leiden . There he attended the local grammar school and later the University of Leiden . He spent a lot of time in the university's chemistry lab, which wasn't well equipped. The young Oudemans was finally able to set up his own chemistry laboratory in the attic of his father's house. His research made him known to his colleagues. When GJ Mulder , who was renowned at the time, was working in the relatively new chemistry laboratory at the University of Utrecht, he practically attracted the country's young chemists. So Oudemans went to Utrecht to study with Mulder, but came back to Leiden in 1853 to do his doctorate there . Then he went back to Utrecht to work as an assistant in the chemistry laboratory.

For ten years he worked for Mulder and others on various projects, for example with the biologist Nicolaas Wilhelm Pieter Rauwenhoff on the chemical processes in seeds. He also worked on the research and quantification of the constituents of the materials important for industrialization such as petroleum , rubber , gutta-percha and metals . He made a name for himself as a chemist.

When the new Polytechnic School te Delft , an institute for higher education in the field of technology in the city of Delft and the cornerstone of the later Technical University of Delft , was founded in 1864, Oudemans was given the chair of chemistry on June 24th. He then left Utrecht and Leiden. In 1973 he turned down the nomination for professor of chemistry at the University of Leiden. As the holder of the chemistry chair, he was responsible for organizing the training of chemical engineers in such a way that they were oriented towards future needs. In 1985 he took over the position of director of the school from Johannes Bosscha and remained so until 1895. In the same year he also took over the post of Secretaris of the Hollandsche Maatschappij der Wetenschappen (today: KHMW) in Haarlem, of which he had been a member since 1868. He followed Eduard Heinrich von Baumhauer , who died in 1885, who introduced the Huygens Medal and Boerhaave Medal .

In 1882, Oudemans and the scientists Eduard Mulder (1832–1924), Antoine Paul Nicolas Franchimont (1844–1919), Willem Anne van Dorp (1847–1914) and Sebastiaan Hoogewerff (1847–1934) founded the first Dutch specialist journal for chemistry, Recueil des Travaux Chimiques des Pays-Bas et de la Belgique . He wrote articles and remained an associate editor.

Oudemans had already learned many modern languages ​​when he learned Russian in 1887 at the age of 56, in order to be able to read the original texts of the Russian chemist and discoverer of the systematics of the chemical elements (forerunners of the periodic table ) Mendeleev .

During this time, the discoveries in chemistry were so rapid that, for example, the iron titration method according to Oudemans-Haswell (optimized in 1883) was replaced by another method after just two years.

Oudemans suffered from gout relatively early and died of larynx tuberculosis in 1895 .

Confusion of names

The confusion of names often results from the abbreviations of names that are common in libraries and reference lists. There are special rules for abbreviations of first names in the Oudemans family.

abbreviation Abbreviation in references Surname
AC Oudemans Oudemans, AC Anthonie Cornelis Oudemans (1798–1874)
AC Oudemans Jr. Oudemans, AC Jr. Antoine Corneille Oudemans (1831–1895)
AC Oudemans Jzn. Oudemans, AC Jzn. Anthonie Cornelis Oudemans (1858–1943)
JAC Oudemans Oudemans, JAC Jean Abraham Chrétien Oudemans (1827-1906)
CA Oudemans Oudemans, CA Cornelis Antonie Oudemans (1890-1958)

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p Sebastiaan Hoogewerff: Antoine Corneille Oudemans . In: Recueil des travaux chimiques des Pays-Bas . 15, 1896, pp. 288-321.
  2. ↑ Sebastiaan Hoogewerff: Antoine Corneille Oudemans Jr. . (PDF (1,290 kByte)) In: Jaarboek van de Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen, Amsterdam . 1896, pp. 69-94.
  3. ↑ Chemie Historische Groep (CHG): Oudemans, AC jr. ( Dutch ) in: chg.kncv.nl . Koninkl Ned Chem Verenig (KNCV). December 1, 2018. Retrieved March 17, 2019.
  4. ↑ a b c d e f g Willem Paulinus Jorissen: Oudemans Jr. (Antoine Corneille) . In: PC Molhuysen, PJ Blok (ed.): Nieuw Nederlandsch Biografisch Woordenboek (NNBW) . Deel 1. AW Sijthoff's Uitgevers-Maatschappij, Leiden 1911, Sp. 1394 and 1395 (Dutch, knaw.nl [accessed March 17, 2019]).
  5. ↑ GL Van Eyndhoven: In memoriam Dr. AC Oudemans. In: Tijdschrift voor entomologie. De Nederlandsche Entomologische Vereeniging, 86th year 1943, 7 April 1944, pp. 1–56, (Dutch), accessed on 10 November 2018.
  6. ^ Antoine Corneille Oudemans, Jr. ( English and Latin ) In: Mathematics Genealogy Project . Department of Mathematics, North Dakota State University. Retrieved March 17, 2019.
  7. ↑ a b Prof. dr. AC (Antoine Corneille) Oudemans . Koninklijke Hollandsche Maatschappij the Wetenschappen.
  8. ↑ Gerrit van Dijk: Biographical Schetsen . Koninklijke Hollandsche Maatschappij der Wetenschappen, Haarlem 2013, p. 12 (Dutch, khmw.nl [PDF; 3.3 MB ; accessed on March 21, 2019]).
  9. ^ Ernst Homburg: Reforming the Educational and Scientific Institutions, 1863-1887 . In the chapter: The Netherlands. In: Anita Kildebæk Nielsen, Sona Štrbánová (ed.): Creating Networks in Chemistry: The Founding and Early History of Chemical Societies in Europe (=  Special Publication . No. 313 ). The Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC Publishing), Cambridge 2008, ISBN 978-0-85404-279-1 , Registered Charity Number 207890, p. 191–193 , page 193, upper quarter (English, oceanpdf.co [PDF; 4.6 MB ; accessed on November 13, 2018] Archived from the original from archive.org on November 13, 2018).
  10. ^ W. Hampe: v. Jüptner (category: literature) . (PDF (6.2 MByte)) In: Chemiker-Zeitung: Central organ for chemists, technicians, manufacturers, pharmacists, engineers . 9, No. 61, July 29, 1885, pp. 1089 and 1090.
personal data
SURNAME Oudemans, Antoine Corneille
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Oudemans, Anthony Cornelis
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch chemist
DATE OF BIRTH April 19, 1831
PLACE OF BIRTH Amsterdam
DATE OF DEATH June 7, 1895
Place of death Delft