Bernhard Rathke

Bernhard Rathke (around 1885)

obituary

Heinrich Bernhard Rathke (born January 20, 1840 in Königsberg i. Pr. , † August 14, 1923 in Bad Reichenhall ) was a German chemist .

Life

Bernhard Rathke was born on January 20, 1840 in Königsberg as the son of the zoologist Martin Heinrich Rathke and his wife Martha Elmire Malonek . He studied natural sciences at the Albertus University in Königsberg . With Arthur Kittel he became a member of the Germania Königsberg fraternity in 1858 . In 1865 he received his doctorate as Dr. phil. He passed his examination to become a senior teacher for science classes in 1866. He then worked in Robert Wilhelm Bunsen's laboratory in Heidelberg . In 1867 he was employed by the University of Halle as an assistant at the chemical institute. Two years later he completed his habilitation.

Rathke taught chemistry and chemical engineering from 1873 to 1876 at a vocational school in Kassel . In 1876 he became a paid associate professor at the University of Halle. Because he had been ill since 1879, he no longer needed to give lectures. In 1882 he moved to Marburg , where he gave his first lectures on physical chemistry. After his recovery he was hired as an honorary professor at the Philipps University of Marburg there in 1900 . In 1912 Rathke retired for health reasons, which he initially spent in Merano . In 1915 he moved to Hohenschwangau , from 1919 he lived in Bad Reichenhall, where he died at the age of 83.

Honors

In 1885 he was elected to the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina .

Works

De duobus acidis selenium et sulfur una continentibus ( dissertation , 1865)
Contributions to the history of selenium (habilitation thesis, 1869)

Web links

Entry on Bernhard Rathke in the Catalogus Professorum Halensis

Individual evidence

↑ Festschrift of the old Königsberg fraternity Germania in Hamburg for their 110th foundation festival . Hamburg 1953.
↑ ^a ^b Brief overview of the development of chemistry at the University of Marburg from 1609 to the present. (PDF; 4.4 MB) Ninth, improved and expanded edition. Chemistry Department of Philipps University, February 2020, p. 71 , accessed on March 28, 2020 .

personal data
SURNAME	Rathke, Bernhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German chemist
DATE OF BIRTH	January 20, 1840
PLACE OF BIRTH	Koenigsberg
DATE OF DEATH	August 14, 1923
Place of death	Bad Reichenhall

[1] Festschrift of the old Königsberg fraternity Germania in Hamburg for their 110th foundation festival . Hamburg 1953.

[Uni_Marburg-2] Brief overview of the development of chemistry at the University of Marburg from 1609 to the present. (PDF; 4.4 MB) Ninth, improved and expanded edition. Chemistry Department of Philipps University, February 2020, p. 71 , accessed on March 28, 2020 .