Carl Drucker
Carl Drucker (born November 24, 1876 in Leipzig , † March 17, 1959 in Uppsala ) was a German chemist .
Life
The son of the lawyer and notary Dr. Martin Drucker (1834–1913) and his wife Marie, née Klein (1841–1921), attended the royal high school in his hometown from Easter 1893 to Easter 1895 , which he left with the school leaving certificate. He then studied chemistry in Leipzig, Gießen and Göttingen . Due to his dissertation on the topic: On two cases of catalysis in inhomogeneous systems , he received his doctorate in December 1900 at the University of Leipzig . The following year he worked as a research assistant at the Chemical Institute of the University of Wroclaw .
After Drucker returned to Leipzig as a research assistant for Wilhelm Ostwald , he completed his habilitation in 1905 with the study of aqueous solutions of aliphatic acids . From 1905 to 1911 he worked as a private lecturer in chemistry at the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Leipzig. In addition to his teaching position, as a scientist he mainly dealt with questions of electrochemistry , thermodynamics and constitutional theory .
Appointed extraordinary professor of chemistry from 1911, Drucker took part in the First World War, where he briefly served in a hunter battalion and then in the Berlin telegraph office .
After the end of the war he returned to Leipzig. In addition to his tasks in research and teaching, he was also entrusted with the publication of the handbook and auxiliary book founded by Robert Luther and Wilhelm Ostwald for the execution of physico-chemical measurements and the journal Physical Chemistry .
Due to his Jewish descent, after the National Socialists came to power, in accordance with Section 3 of the Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service on September 6, 1933 , Drucker's license to teach was revoked. In the same year he emigrated to Sweden , where he found a new job at the Physico-Chemical Institute at Uppsala University .
His brother was the Leipzig lawyer Martin Drucker .
Publications (selection)
- with Wilhelm Ostwald (Hrsg.): Handbuch der Allgemeine Chemie , Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft, Leipzig 1914ff.
- Molecular kinetics and molar association as basic physicochemical concepts. Inaugural lecture, held in Leipzig in 1912 , Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft, Leipzig 1913.
- with Alexis Finkelstein: Galvanic elements and accumulators. Presentation of theory and technology together with patent register , Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft, Leipzig 1932.
literature
- Lothar Beyer, Rainer Behrends: De artes chemiae. Chemists and chemistry at the Alma mater Lipsiensis , Passage Verlag, Leipzig 2003.
- Ronald Lambrecht: Political dismissals in the Nazi era. Forty-four biographical sketches by professors at the University of Leipzig , Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, Leipzig 2006, pp. 60ff.
Web links
- Literature by and about Carl Drucker in the catalog of the German National Library
- Carl Drucker in the professorial catalog of the University of Leipzig
- Overview of Carl Drucker's courses at the University of Leipzig (summer semester 1906 to winter semester 1913)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Drucker, Carl |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Drucker, Karl (different spelling) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German chemist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 24, 1876 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Leipzig |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 17, 1959 |
| Place of death | Uppsala |