August Krönig

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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

  1. ↑ Death register StA Berlin III, No. 541/1879
personal data
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