Carl Löwig
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Carl (Karl) Jacob Löwig (born March 17, 1803 in Kreuznach , † March 27, 1890 in Breslau ) was a German chemist.
Life
Carl Löwig was an academic student of Leopold Gmelin . He later taught chemistry as a professor at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg and the University of Zurich . In 1853 he succeeded Robert Wilhelm Bunsen as professor at the Royal University of Breslau . In 1856/57 he was rector there , as he had been in Zurich in 1848/49.
His area of work included a. the compounds of bromine , which he obtained before 1825 by introducing chlorine into Kreuznach brine water. During this time he was the administrator of the Schmedes'schen pharmacy in Kreuznach . The first isolation of bromine was in 1826 by Antoine-Jérôme Balard .
His large handbook “Chemistry of Organic Compounds”, published in 1839-40, was the only handbook of organic chemistry available in German before “Beilstein” appeared. His students were u. a. Hans Heinrich Landolt , Matthias Eduard Schweizer and Salomon Weidmann.
In Breslau he devoted himself to the development of the chemical industry; so he founded the first chemical factory in Silesia with E. Kalmiz in Sorau, then his own in goldsmiths.
Löwig is portrayed as an attractive personality, "a whole man full of strength and energy, of amiability and grace, adroit in all affairs of life and full of interest in all processes of the time, an eager disciple of art, especially music". He was chairman of the Breslau Orchestra Association until old age.
In 1881 he was one of the founding philistines of the Academic Pharmaceutical Society at the University of Breslau, later the Corps Frisia Breslau.
literature
- Armin Wankmüller: Löwig, Karl Jacob. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 15, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1987, ISBN 3-428-00196-6 , p. 109 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Hermann Markgraf: Löwig, Karl Jacob . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 52, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1906, p. 105 f.
swell
- Biographical note ( memento of April 8, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) (English)
- The discovery of bromine (English)
- Hans Heinrich Landolt : Nekrolog: Carl Löwig . In: Reports of the German Chemical Society . 23, No. 3, 1890, pp. 905-909. doi : 10.1002 / cber.18900230395 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Carl Löwig in the catalog of the German National Library
- Overview of Carl Löwig's courses at the University of Zurich (summer semester 1833 to winter semester 1852)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Rector's speeches (HKM)
- ↑ Margrave in ADB (1906), p. 105 f.
- ↑ Bernd-A. Kahe, Alfred Priemeier, Ernst Battmer, Nils Höpken: Corps lists of the Braunschweig Seniors' Convent in the WSC , Frisia Breslau, No. 16. Braunschweig, 1990
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Löwig, Carl |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Löwig, Carl Jacob; Löwig, Karl Jacob |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German chemist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 17, 1803 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kreuznach |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 27, 1890 |
| Place of death | Wroclaw |