Carl Ehrmann

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Carl Ehrmann, portrait photo by Catharine Weed Barnes (1892)

Carl August Theodor Ehrmann ( June 22, 1822 in Löwenberg i. Silesia - October 23, 1894 in New York ) was a German pharmacist, in the USA a photography pioneer and teacher.

Life

Carl Ehrmann was born on June 22, 1822 as the son of Mayor Gottfried Wilhelm Ehrmann in Löwenberg in Silesia (today Lwówek Śląski ). He graduated from high school and completed an apprenticeship as a pharmacist . 1847 went to the University of Berlin to take the state examination. Ehrmann joined the revolutionary movement in 1848 and took an active part in uprisings, first in the Schleswig-Holstein uprising in the Freikorps of Ludwig von der Tann-Rathsamhausen , then in Silesia, Dresden and the Rhine Palatinate.

Fearing persecution and punishment, he left Europe and probably went ashore in New York in 1850. First he devoted himself to agriculture in Michigan and then to gold prospecting in Texas. Eventually he returned to New York penniless.

In 1851 the photographer Bertha Wehnert-Beckmann had successfully run a studio on Broadway . Her photographs were so-called calotypes , with the image on paper and not, as with a daguerreotype, reversed and on metal. Ehrmann was hired by a photographer, where he experimented with fixing negatives on glass plates. His knowledge of chemistry, which he had learned during his apprenticeship as a pharmacist, helped him. He was one of the first to implement and use the wet collodion procedure . In his biographical notes, he does not reveal which studios he was employed in. He may have initially stayed in Philadelphia, where he worked for the daguerreotypists James McClees (1821-1887) and Washington Lafayette Germon (1823-1877).

In 1881 he became an editor of The Photographic Times and American Photographer magazine . Here he published numerous articles. He was also responsible for the translations of foreign language articles in other photographic magazines. At the time, the publishers of journals from France, Great Britain, Germany and Austria were in constant contact in order to publish the latest findings.

In 1886 he was given the title of "Professor" when he took over the chair of photography at the " Chautauqua Institution".

Charles Ehrmann, as he called himself in the USA, died on October 23, 1894 in New York.

Article in The Photographic Times and American Photographer (selection)

  • Vol. XIII New York 1883
    • Albumen , p. 445.
    • Gelatin vs. Collodion , p. 110 and p. 204.
    • Halogens and Haloids , pp. 525, 578 and p. 640.
    • Oxalic Acid and Oxalates , pp. 10 and 117.
  • Vol XIV 1884
    • Action of Light on Silver Salts . P. 294.
    • Decimal Weigths and Measures . P. 348.
    • Eosine p. 291.
    • Fixing p. 230.
    • Halogens and Haloids , p. 11, p. 67 and p. 131.
    • Historical Notes , p. 181.
    • Literature , p. 631.
    • Mechanical Printing , p. 234.
    • Photographic Progress , p. 119.
    • Potassium , p. 405, p. 474, p. 529 and p. 582.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Disciplinary matter and dismissal from office in 1850; see under "Ehrmann, Gottfried Wilhelm Philipp" in: Acta Borussica ; New series: 1st row: The minutes of the Prussian State Ministry 1817–1934 / 38; Volume 4/2: March 30, 1848 to October 27, 1858, p. 564, ( PDF ).
  2. ^ Supplement to the Leipziger Zeitung of July 2, 1857, p. 3363 .
  3. ↑ See the article: Forty-Eighters .
  4. ^ Carl August Theodor Ehrmann . In: Photographische Rundschau .
  5. ^ Charles Augustus Theodore Ehrmann . In: The Photographic Times ...
  6. ↑ Obitury . In: Photographic Mosaics , Benerman & Wilson, New York, 1896, p. 118.

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Wikisource: The Photographic Times and American Photographer  - Sources and full texts
personal data
SURNAME Ehrmann, Carl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ehrmann, Carl August Theodor; Ehrmann, Charles; Ehrmann, C .; Ehrmann, Chas .; Ehrmann, Charles Augustus Theodore
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-American pharmacist, teacher and photography pioneer
DATE OF BIRTH June 22, 1822
PLACE OF BIRTH Löwenberg i. Silesia
DATE OF DEATH October 23, 1894
Place of death new York