Carl Friedrich Plattner

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Title page Plattner's solder tube trial customer
Plaque on Plattner's grave in Freiberg

Carl Friedrich Plattner (born January 2, 1800 in Kleinwaltersdorf ; † January 22, 1858 in Freiberg , also cited as: Karl Friedrich Plattner) was a German metallurgical expert and chemist .

life and work

Plattner was born as the son of a miner in 1800 in Kleinwaltersdorf (today a part of Freiberg ). From 1815 to 1817 he studied at the Freiberg mountain school; he then took up studies at the Bergakademie Freiberg , which he finished in 1820.

The following years he worked in the Freiberg ironworks and devoted himself to research. His work Die Probirkunst mit dem Solötrohre , first published in 1835, received a lot of attention and was reprinted several times. In order to expand his knowledge of analytical chemistry , Plattner studied from 1838 to 1839 with Heinrich Rose in Berlin . When he returned to Freiberg in 1840, he was named Obigartswardein .

In 1842 he took over the professorship for metallurgy at the Freiberg Bergakademie as the successor to Wilhelm August Lampadius . He introduced lectures on soldering tube testing and from 1851 also gave lectures on metallurgy .

Plattner also researched and published on metallurgical roasting processes and developed a process for extracting gold with chlorine gas that was used worldwide. In 1856 Plattner became Bergrat. Due to health problems, he had to give up teaching that same year.

Publications

  • The trial art with the soldering pipe . Barth, Leipzig 1835
  • Contribution to the expansion of probation art . Engelhardt, Freiberg 1849 ( digitized version )
  • The metallurgical roasting processes, viewed theoretically . Engelhardt, Freiberg 1856 ( digitized version )
  • Lectures on general metallurgy / ed. by Theodor Richter . Engelhardt, Freiberg. Vol. 1: 1860 ( digitized version ), Vol. 2: 1863 ( digitized version )

literature

  • C. Schiffner: From the life of old Freiberg mountain students. E. Maukisch, Freiberg 1935, pp. 57-59.
  • Alfred Lange: Carl Friedrich Plattner in memory. On the 100th anniversary of his death on January 22, 1958 . In: Bergakademie H. 1 / Jg. 10/1956 Akademie-Verlag, Berlin, pp. 44–45
  • Lorenz: The important mountain scientist Plattner . In: Sächsische Heimatblätter . H. 7 / year 6/1960, p. 463
  • Hans Jürgen Plattner:  Plattner, Carl Friedrich. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 20, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-428-00201-6 , p. 519 ( digitized version ).
  • Rudolf Stohn: Outstanding old Freibergers in the field of metalworking . In: Bergakademie H. 10 / Jg. 8/1956 Akademie-Verlag, Berlin, pp. 460–469
  • Ilja Westermann: From Plattner's life and work . In: Metall und Erz H. 6 / Jg. XXX / 1933, Halle, pp. 101-103

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personal data
SURNAME Plattner, Carl Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Plattner, Karl Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German metallurgist and chemist
DATE OF BIRTH January 2, 1800
PLACE OF BIRTH Kleinwaltersdorf
DATE OF DEATH January 22, 1858
Place of death Freiberg