Anton from Swab

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Anton von Swab
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Anton von Swab (born July 29, 1702 as Anton Swab in Falun in Sweden , † January 28, 1768 in Stockholm ) was a Swedish mining captain , mountain ridge and mineralogist , who was one of the first mineralogists to use a soldering pipe as a research tool for chemistry and mineralogy .

Life

Anton Swab was the son of Anton Swab and Kristina Arrhusia. His father died when Anton Swab was a child; the mother married again. He received a humanistic education and a degree from Uppsala University . In 1723 he was enrolled as a student in the Bergskollegium . He then went on trips to Sweden, Norway and Finland to explore the methods used in the pits and huts there. In 1730 he traveled to some European countries; in Saxony he studied chemistry with Johann Friedrich Henckel . Back in Sweden in 1736 he was hired as a miner .

According to the records of Jöns Jakob Berzelius , Anton von Swab first used a soldering tube in 1738 to deflect a hot jet from a flame using the additional "blown air" and thus examine minerals:

“Anton von Swab, Swedish Bergrath, was, as Berzeilius informs us, according to Bergman's statement, the first who tried to use the soldering tube in 1738 for testing minerals and ores; but since he did not make known anything in writing about his experiments, one does not know how far they extended. "

- Carl Friedrich Plattner : Carl Friedrich Plattner's art of trying things out with the soldering tube: A complete guide to qualitative and quantitative soldering tube examinations

Also in 1738 Swab discovered the minable gold deposit Ädelfors in Småland , which was Sweden's only gold mine from the following year and for decades.

In 1742 Swab was elected to the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences . In 1751 he was knighted in the name of Swab; he was awarded the North Star Order .

Von Swab died unmarried and childless on January 28, 1768 in Stockholm . He is one of the most important Swedish scientists who are pictured on the Jernkontoret building ("iron office").

A mineral first described by Hjalmar Sjögren in 1891 was named Svabit in his honor .

literature

  • Svab, Anton von . In: Herman Hofberg, Frithiof Heurlin, Viktor Millqvist, Olof Rubenson (eds.): Svenskt biografiskt handlexikon . 2nd Edition. tape 2 : L – Z, including supplement . Albert Bonniers Verlag, Stockholm 1906, p. 562-563 (Swedish, runeberg.org ).

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Lorenz Florenz Friedrich Crell: Adelfors . In: Chemische Annalen for the friends of the natural science, Arzney knowledge, household art and manufactories . first volume, 2011, ISBN 978-1-247-97169-8 , pp. 251 .
  2. ↑ Das Weltall: a geographical-statistical-natural-historical concise dictionary with consideration of what is worth knowing from world history . Carl Friederich, 1828, p. 368 .
  3. ↑ Adelfors . In: Johann Samuelersch, Johann Gottfried Gruber (Hrsg.): General Encyclopedia of Sciences and Arts in alphabetical order . 1818, p. 400 .
  4. ^ H. Sjögren: Svabit, ett mineral af apatitgruppen från Harstigsgrufvan . In: Geologiska Föreningens i Stockholm Förhandlingar . tape 13 , 1891, p. 789–796 (Swedish, rruff.info [PDF; 1.8 MB ; accessed on October 19, 2018]).
personal data
SURNAME Swab, Anton von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Swab, Anton (maiden name); Svab, Anton
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish mining captain, mountain ridge and mineralogist
DATE OF BIRTH July 29, 1702
PLACE OF BIRTH Falun , Sweden
DATE OF DEATH January 28, 1768
Place of death Stockholm