Anton Lissner

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Anton Raimund Lissner (born August 21, 1885 in Schönau , Kingdom of Bohemia, † February 6, 1970 in Freiberg ) was a German chemist and technician.

Life

Anton Lissner's grave in Freiberg

Lissner studied chemistry at the Technical University in Prague from 1904 to 1908 . From 1908 to 1910 he was an assistant in the “Chemical Technology” section and received his doctorate in 1910 with his thesis The chemical characteristics of the hanging rocks of brown and hard coal .

From 1910 to 1920, Lissner was head of the chemical laboratory in the Ignaz Storek foundry and machine factory in Brno . In 1913 he completed his habilitation and in 1920 was appointed professor of chemical technology at the German Technical University in Brno .

From 1942 to 1945 he taught at the Prague German Technical University. From 1945 to 1955 he was a professor of inorganic chemistry at the Bergakademie Freiberg . He initially developed soap, but his scientific pursuit was the refinement of inferior salty brown coal . Since 1957 he was a corresponding and since 1964 a full member of the German Academy of Sciences in Berlin .

In 1956 he was appointed founding director of the German Fuel Institute, which he led together with Erich Rammler until 1963. Lissner died in Freiberg in 1970 and was buried in the Donatsfriedhof .

Fonts (selection)

  • Anton Lissner, Eduard Donath : Coal and Petroleum , Verlag Enke, Stuttgart 1920
  • Anton Lissner, Otto Brunck : Quantitative Analysis (1936).
  • Anton Lissner: The chemistry of lignite (1953–1956)

Honors

  • National Prize of the GDR (1952)
  • Great Scientist of the People (1955)
  • Full member of the Saxon Academy of Sciences and the German Academy of Sciences
  • Clemens Winkler Medal (1958)
  • Honorary Senator of the Bergakademie Freiberg (1960)
  • Honorary Citizen of the City of Freiberg (1965)

literature

  • Erich Rammler: Contributions to the chemistry and technology of fuels; Commemorative letter for Professor Dr. tech. habil. Anton Lissner . Berlin, Akademie-Verlag, 1971.
  • Erich Rammler: Anton Lissner August 21, 1885 - February 6, 1970 . In: Yearbook / Saxon Academy of Sciences in Leipzig 1969–1970 . Akademie-Verl. Berlin, 1972, pp. 247-256.
  • Hans-Georg Schäfer:  Lissner, Anton. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 14, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1985, ISBN 3-428-00195-8 , p. 691 f. ( Digitized version ).

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personal data
SURNAME Lissner, Anton
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lissner, Anton Raimund (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German chemist and technician
DATE OF BIRTH August 21, 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH Velký Šenov (German Groß Schönau)
DATE OF DEATH February 6, 1970
Place of death Freiberg