Carl Otakar Čech

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Carl Otakar Čech (also Karel Otakar Čech , Dragutin Otokar Čech , Carl Ottokar Franz Cech , born March 5, 1842 in Weipert , † June 8, 1895 in Agram ) was an agrochemist from Bohemia , who lived in Croatia from 1886 and last from In 1890 worked as a Venezuelan consul.

Life

Carl Otakar Čech was the answer to a prize question posed in Zurich in 1865 by the Federal Polytechnic with its inaugural dissertation studies on quantitative methods of determination of tannins in 1867 at the Ruprecht-Karls University in Heidelberg for Dr. phil. PhD . In 1868 he completed his habilitation at the Polytechnic Institute in Prague and worked here as a private lecturer until 1874 . He also taught bilingual German and Czech from 1872 to 1874 at the first brewery school in Prague.

From 1876 to 1877 he worked as a private lecturer in technical chemistry at the Royal Trade Academy in Berlin. He then worked from 1878 to 1880, first in a chemical laboratory in St. Petersburg and later in Moscow. During the industrial exhibition in Moscow in 1882 he worked as a correspondent for the Austrian Ministry of Commerce.

In 1886 he settled in Agram in Croatia. He was the founder and first editor of the Živobran magazine , a publication of the Zagreb Society for Animal Welfare. In 1890 he became the Venezuelan consul in Rijeka .

Carl Otakar Čech carried out research on hops and their use in the brewing and food industries and also dealt with viticulture, fruit growing, beekeeping, and silk and fish farming.

He was a member of the Society of German Chemists in Berlin and was named Carl Ottokar Franz Cech on December 26, 1880 in the chemistry section with the matriculation number. Admitted to the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina as a member in 2276 .

For his services he was awarded the French Order of Merit for Agriculture, Ordre du Mérite agricole .

Several letters from and to the chemist Emil Erlenmeyer have survived from his correspondence .

Publications (selection)

  • Studies on quantitative methods of determination of tannic acids . Heidelberg 1867 ( digitized version )
  • Map of beet-sugar factories in Bohemia, Moravia, Silesia . 1870 ( digitized version )
  • Chemistry at the Kaiser Franz Josefs University in Agram . Prague 1874 ( digitized version )

literature

  • Carl Hermann Knoblauch , Karl von Fritsch (Ed.): Leopoldina . Official organ of the Imperial Leopoldino-Carolinian German Academy of Natural Scientists. 31. Issue. In commission at Wilh. Engelmann in Leipzig, Halle 1895, p. 110-111 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
  • Josef Medved: The life and work of Dr. Carl Ottokar Čech . Stock book printing, Agram 1896

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Willi Ule : History of the Imperial Leopoldine-Carolinian German Academy of Natural Scientists during the years 1852–1887 . With a look back at the earlier times of its existence. Commissioned by Wilhelm Engelmann in Leipzig, Halle 1889, supplements and additions to Neigebaur's history, p. 213 ( archive.org ).
personal data
SURNAME Čech, Carl Otakar
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Cech, Carl Ottokar Franz; Čech, Dragutin Otokar; Čech, Karel Otakar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Agrochemist
DATE OF BIRTH March 5, 1842
PLACE OF BIRTH Weipert
DATE OF DEATH June 8, 1895
Place of death Agram