Carl Christian Hochstetter

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Carl Christian Friedrich Hochstetter (born March 11, 1818 in Brno , † November 22, 1880 in Vienna ) was a German-Austrian chemist , entrepreneur and botanist .

His botanical author abbreviation is " K.Hochst. "

Life

His parents were Christian Ferdinand Friedrich Hochstetter and Karoline Leidenfrost (1797-1818). After finishing school, Hochstetter first completed an apprenticeship as a pharmacist in Reutlingen. Together with the Bern pharmacist Heinrich Joseph Guthnick (1800–1880) and the Swiss mineralogist Rudolf Gygax , he went on a three-month scientific excursion to the Azores at the age of 20 on behalf of the Württemberg travel association founded by his father . Hochstetter brought back a collection of around 400 plant species, including 34 species new to science. The botanical results were mainly published by Moritz Seubert .

Back in his homeland, Hochstetter gained professional experience in the Fürstlich Salmschen Eisenwerke in Blansko under Karl Freiherr von Reichenbach , then in the sugar factory in Ikervar in Eisenburg County and in the sugar factory in Altshausen (Upper Swabia). In 1841, following his interest in mineralogy and chemistry, he went to study at the University of Berlin. In 1842 he discovered the mineral hydrotalcite that is still used today for the treatment of heartburn.

In 1843, with the support of his uncle, the cloth manufacturer Karl von Offermann , he founded a blood liquor salt factory in Brno. Together with Josef von Miller zu Aichholz , the “First Austrian Soda Factory” was founded in Hruschau in 1850 . In 1866 Hochstetter moved to Vienna. He participated in the Freiheitsauer sugar factory, the Portland cement factory in Perlmoos , of which he was president until his death, the Wiener Locomotivfabriks-AG in Floridsdorf, and a petroleum and paraffin factory in Floridsdorf.

In 1862 he was a member of the state parliament in the Silesian state parliament in Troppau and since 1867 chamber councilor of the Vienna Chamber of Commerce. He was buried at the Grinzing cemetery .

family

Since 1848 Hochstetter was married to Franziska ("Fanny") Veronika Schickardt (1824-1852), with whom he had a son and a daughter. A few years after Fanny's death, he married Justine Bengough (1837–1913). He had nine children with her, including Ferdinand Hochstetter (1861–1954). Christian Ferdinand Friedrich Hochstetter and Wilhelm Christian Hochstetter were his half-brothers.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Kurt Ganzinger: Apotheker-Biographien (3) . Österreichische Apotheker-Zeitung 42, pp. 122–128 digital copy [1]
  2. ↑ M. Seubert & C. Hochstetter: Overview of the flora of the Azorean islands . In: Archive for Natural History 9, pp. 1–24. 1843
  3. ↑ M. Seubert: Flora azorica quam ex Collectionibus Schedisque hochstetteri Patris et Filii . Bonnae, 1844
  4. ^ Arno Wörz: The Esslinger Botanical Travel Association 1825-1845 - A stock corporation for the implementation of natural history collecting trips . Berlin, 2016. ISBN 978-3-8325-4211-5
  5. ↑ Grave site Christian Ferdinand Hochstetter , Vienna, Grinzinger Friedhof, Group MR, No. 11.
  6. ↑ Anonymous: Reminder sheet to Karl Hochstetter . In: Mittheilungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Geographische Gesellschaft, Volume 24, pp. 390–395, 1881
personal data
SURNAME Hochstetter, Carl Christian
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hochstetter, Carl Christian Friedrich (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Austrian chemist, entrepreneur and botanist
DATE OF BIRTH March 11, 1818
PLACE OF BIRTH Brno
DATE OF DEATH November 22, 1880
Place of death Vienna