Christlieb Ehregott Gellert
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Christlieb Ehregott Gellert (born August 11, 1713 in Hainichen , † May 18, 1795 in Freiberg ) was a German metallurgist and mineralogist .
Life
Gellert came from a pastor's family, his younger brother was the poet and philosopher Christian Fürchtegott Gellert .
After completing his training at the Princely School of St. Afra in Meißen , he studied natural sciences at the University of Leipzig . In 1735 Gellert went to Saint Petersburg and worked there, among other things, at the Imperial Academy of Sciences in the field of chemistry and physics . In 1744 he left St. Petersburg.
When he returned to Saxony, the hoped-for professorship in Leipzig or Wittenberg did not materialize. Gellert went to Freiberg, where he was entrusted with a variety of tasks in the field of chemistry and metallurgy by the Oberbergamt and, as the successor to Johann Friedrich Henckel, taught metallurgical chemistry to metallurgists. Gellert was considered the most important metallurgist, so that numerous audiences from abroad also took part in his lectures.
In 1753 he was appointed as a commissioner at the Oberbergamt and he was given responsibility for the mining machinery. He was also responsible for testing the melting processes and examining minerals.
Gellert introduced many improvements in the work of the Freiberg smelters, the most important of which was the introduction of the barrel amalgamation of silver ores in Europe; the facility on the Halsbrücker Hütte was built between 1787 and 1790 and was in continuous operation for 67 years.
When the Bergakademie Freiberg was founded in 1765, Gellert took over the chair for metallurgy, chemistry and the art of experimentation , which he held until his death.
He was honored with the title Bergrat in 1782 for his work .
Publications
- The beginnings of trying art (German translation by Johann Andreas Cramer's Elementa artis docimasticae ), Stockholm 1746
- Initial reasons for metallurgical chemistry: In a theoretical and practical part according to an order established in nature , Leipzig 1750; 2nd edition Leipzig 1776
- Initial reasons for the art of trying: as the second part of the practical metallurgical chimery , Leipzig 1755
literature
- Wilhelm von Gümbel: Gellert, Christlieb Ehregott . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 8, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1878, p. 549 f.
- Hans-Georg Schäfer: Gellert, Christlieb Ehregott. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 6, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1964, ISBN 3-428-00187-7 , p. 175 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Werner Lauterbach : Bergrat Christlieb Ehregott Gellert , Freiberg research books series D 200, German publishing house for basic industry, Leipzig / Stuttgart 1994, ISBN 3-342-00483-5
- Wolfgang Voigt (Ed.): Christlieb Ehregott Gellert on his 300th birthday . Diachron-Verlag, Berlin, 2014, ISBN 978-3-981-63728-1
Web links
- Works by and about Christlieb Ehregott Gellert in the German Digital Library
- Literature by and about Christlieb Ehregott Gellert in the Saxon Bibliography
- Alexander Wilhelm Köhler: Stand speech at the coffin of the immortalized Mr. Christlieb Ehregott Gellert's electoral Saxon Bergrath and chief huts administrator, also teacher of metallurgical chemistry at the electoral. Bergakademie here. Freiberg 1795
Individual evidence
- ↑ . VL Cenekal and J. Ch Kopelewitsch: Christlieb honor God Gellert in Petersburg . In: Contributions to the history of mining, metallurgy and the mining sciences (16th to 20th centuries), Vol. 1 . German Verlag für Grundstofftindustrie, Leipzig, 1964. Freiberg research books D 46
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gellert, Christlieb Ehregott |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German metallurgist and mineralogist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 11, 1713 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hainichen |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 18, 1795 |
| Place of death | Freiberg |