Christian Friedrich Brendel
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Christian Friedrich Brendel (born December 26, 1776 in Neustädtel , † November 20, 1861 in Freiberg ) was a German mining engineer and machine director in the Saxon mining industry . Brendel is considered one of the most important Saxon mining technicians of the 19th century.
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Brendel was born as the son of the miner Conrad Brendel in the hat house of the pit "Peter and Paul" not far from the felt pond near Neustädtel . The Brendels had been working as miners , hammer smiths and glassmakers in the Schneeberg area since around 1630 . Following the family tradition, Christian Friedrich also learned the profession of miner and worked as such in the Schneeberger Revier . In 1790 he became a carpenter in the Marx-Semler-Stolln , one of the most important Upper Erzgebirge tunnels . Later he drove to this pit as a chipper . By Karl Baldauf , the mountain jury of the district, Brendel received early tutoring in mathematics and drawing and was entrusted with the production of models by mining machines and tools.
In 1796 he moved to Freiberg , where he was laid out on the “Morgenstern” mine, before moving to the Himmelsfürst Fundgrube a year later . In Freiberg he worked, among other things, in the construction of a piece of art . In 1797 Brendel applied to study at the Bergakademie Freiberg . He received a scholarship on condition that he would later work in the Saxon civil service . The study period lasted until 1802. Brendel's teachers included Werner , v. Trebra , Lempe and Lampadius . During his studies Brendel distinguished himself through special achievements in the field of machine technology.
After completing his studies, Brendel was employed in October 1802 as a top climber on the Thelersberger Stolln in Linda . In order to promote his technical skills, he went on a study trip to England in November 1802 at the recommendation of Trebras . During this trip, Brendel was supposed to study English mechanical engineering and especially the use of steam engines in mining. He returned from this extremely instructive study trip - after repeated admonitions - in January 1805.
Since there was no vacant mechanical engineering position in Freiberg mining after his return, Brendel moved to the Electoral Saxon salt works in Dürrenberg as master builder . Here he built his first steam engine from 1808 to 1811, which largely corresponded to Watt's machine, but was characterized by its own, new construction elements (steam engine running clockwise and anti-clockwise with a horizontal flywheel). When Dürrenberg fell to Prussia after the Congress of Vienna , Brendel returned to Freiberg.
Here he succeeded Karl Gottfried Baldauf, who died in 1811, as an art master . In this position, Brendel was the chief machine officer in the Saxon mining industry; he was responsible for the entire machine area in the Saxon mining and metallurgical industry as well as in the porcelain factories of Meißen and Hubertusburg . Brendel also had a seat and a vote in all Saxon mining offices . Since 1817, his position has been machine director. In his position, he was responsible for making decisions about the use of machines in the entire Saxon mining and metallurgical industry. Since there was no private mining machine production at that time, Brendel and his subordinate employees at the Halsbrücke mechanical engineering institute and the Übigau engineering institute took care of the planning and construction of the machines required. In the following years he constructed further steam engines, as well as water goblets , turbines and water column machines with the "Brendel piston control" named after him , which Julius Weisbach later described and thus made internationally known.
What was remarkable was the planning of what was then the largest Saxon blower for the Antonshütte in 1829/31. The cylinder blower went down in technical history as the "Schwarzenberg blower" and has been on view since 1926 at the Freiberg mine "Alte Elisabeth" . During the same period, Brendel built a 250-meter-long horse-drawn railway between the shaft and the laundry of the old murder pit on fire . The railway proved itself and indirectly supported the construction of the first German long-distance railway between Leipzig and Dresden . On behalf of the government, Brendel wrote an expert report on the safety of the first steamship to operate on the Elbe .
In 1846 he was named a mountain ridge. In 1851 he retired.
Christian Friedrich Brendel died in Freiberg in 1861.
His son Franz Brendel became known as a musicologist.
Works
- Report on the model collection of the Bergakademie Freiberg , Freiberg 1828 (Frieder Jentsch (ed.): Report by Christian Friedrich Brendel from 1828 on the model collection of the Bergakademie Freiberg , files and reports from the Saxon mining vol. 39, Jens Kugler Verlag, Kleinvoigtsberg 2002 )
literature
- Gerd Grabow : Christian Friedrich Brendel, the important mechanical engineer for mining and metallurgy in the 19th century , in: Bergknappe 32 (2008) 2, pp. 33–39 ( digital version of the entire issue ; PDF; 3.4 MB)
- Carl Friedrich Hempel: Biography of Georg Christian Brendel , Eisenberg 1831
- C. Schiffner: From the life of old Freiberg mountain students . E. Maukisch, Freiberg 1935, pp. 94-97.
- Herbert Pforr: Traces of the work of CF Brendel in the mechanical engineering of Freiberg silver mining , in: Sächsische Heimatblätter , (1987), no. 4, pp. 175–177
- Bruno Sauer: Brendel, Christian Friedrich. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1955, ISBN 3-428-00183-4 , p. 582 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Otfried Wagenbreth : The machine director Christian Friedrich Brendel and his importance for the technical and industrial development in the 19th century in Saxony . In: Sächsische Heimatblätter, (1976) H. 6, pp. 271-279
- Otfried Wagenbreth: Christian Friedrich Brendel, the leading mining machine technician in Saxony during the industrial revolution , in: Sächsische Heimatblätter, (1987), no. 4, pp. 166–167
- Otfried Wagenbreth: Christian Friedrich Brendel. Life and work of an important engineer in the first half of the 19th century . TU Bergakademie Freiberg, 2006. (Freiberg research books ; D 221) ISBN 3-86012-279-7
- Wappler: Oberberghauptmann von Trebra and the three first Saxon art masters Mende , Baldauf and Brendel . In: Messages from the Freiberg Antiquities Association. 41 (1905), pp. 69-178
Web links
- Otfried Wagenbreth: Christian Friedrich Brendel - The Saxon machine director from Neustädtel (pdf, 53 kB)
- Literature by and about Christian Friedrich Brendel in the Saxon Bibliography
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Brendel, Christian Friedrich |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German mining engineer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 26, 1776 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Neustädtel , Ore Mountains |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 20, 1861 |
| Place of death | Freiberg |