August Krönig
Carl August Krönig , also Kroenig , (born September 20, 1822 in Schildesche near Bielefeld, † June 5, 1879 in Berlin ) was a German chemist and physicist .
Life
Krönig was the son of Pastor Gottlieb Kroenig and his wife Wilhelmine, née Campe. After graduating from high school, he first studied oriental languages in Bonn for three semesters from 1839, before moving on to physics, chemistry and mathematics at the University of Berlin from 1840 , where he also received his doctorate in 1845 on chromic salts . He then worked at the Cöllnischen Realgymnasium, from 1851 at the Royal Realschule at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Gymnasium in Berlin. In 1864 he was awarded the title of professor, but in the same year he had to retire due to illness. In 1851 he self-published the Journal for Physics and Physical Chemistry of Foreign Countries in full overviews , which only existed for one year. From 1853 he edited the annual journal Progress in Physics published by the Berlin Physical Society . In 1856 he developed the kinetic theory of gases and became a pioneer of statistical mechanics and thermodynamics alongside Rudolf Clausius , James Clerk Maxwell and Ludwig Boltzmann . He also published various scientific and philosophical-theological writings.
His final resting place is in the family grave in the south-west cemetery in Stahnsdorf .
Works
- De acidi chromici salibus cristallinis (dissertation), Berlin 1845
- New method for avoiding and finding calculation errors using the nine, eleven, thirty-seven and one hundred and one tests. A tool for number calculators , Berlin 1855
- Principles of a theory of gases in: Annalen der Physik [2] 33 (1856), 315
- Chemistry, worked on as an educational tool for the mind for use in teaching chemistry at higher educational establishments , Berlin 1864
- How do you criticize chemical textbooks? An anti-criticism , Berlin 1865
- The worthlessness of a large number of chemical formulas: Dargethan due to the size of the errors in Liebig's analyzes and a new method for deriving the formula of a compound from the weight of the components , Julius Springer Verlag, Berlin 1866 ( full text in the Google book search)
- The existence of God and the happiness of people, materialistic and empirical-philosophical studies, especially about the question of God and Darwinism, about the instinct for self-happiness as the foundation of wisdom and practical morality and about the main teachings of Kant and Schopenhauer , Berlin 1874
- Six new recipes for cheap nutrition , Berlin 1874
literature
- August Krönig, in: JC Poggendorff: Biographisch-literarisches Handwörterbuch der exacten Wissenschaften , Bd.I, Leipzig 1863, p. 752; Volume III, Leipzig 1898, p. 752
- Stefan Wolff: August Krönig , in: Dieter Hoffmann, Hubert Leitko and Staffan Müller-Wille (eds.): Lexicon of important natural scientists , Vol. 2, Wiesbaden-Heidelberg 2004, ISBN 3-8274-0401-0 , p. 345
- Fritz Krafft: Portrait of the most important scientists , Wiesbaden 2007, ISBN 978-3-86539-911-3 , p. 210
- Michael Gamper: Read mass, write mass. A history of discourse and imagination , Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-7705-4436-3 , pp. 437-438
Individual evidence
- ↑ Death register StA Berlin III, No. 541/1879
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Krönig, August |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Krönig, Carl August; Kroenig, August Karl |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German chemist and physicist |
DATE OF BIRTH | September 20, 1822 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Shield ash |
DATE OF DEATH | June 5, 1879 |
Place of death | Berlin |