Eberhard Zschimmer

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Eberhard Zschimmer (born November 4, 1873 in Weimar ; † August 15, 1940 in Ettlingen ) was a German mineralogist, engineer, manager, professor and author.

Life

He was the son of a landscape painter and studied from 1893 to 1898 in Charlottenburg and with Gottlob Linck in Jena, where he received his doctorate in 1898 and became an assistant at the Mineralogical Institute in Jena. From 1899 he worked in the Schott u. Gen., later Schott AG in Jena, where he was director from 1915 to 1919. He invented the uviol glass . He then became a private scholar in Jena, then in 1922 private lecturer and from 1923 to 1934 associate professor at the Technical University of Karlsruhe. In his philosophical works, on the basis of the philosophy of German idealism, he represented a positive view of technology as a creative force compared to positions critical of technology and civilization.

Fonts

  • German philosophers of technology. Stuttgart: Enke, 1937
  • The logic of scientific consciousness. Stuttgart: Enke, 1936
  • The silica system. Stuttgart: Enke, 1933
  • Philosophy of technology. Stuttgart: Enke, 1933, 3rd, completely redesigned. Ed.
  • Fluorine opal and the theory of cloudy glasses for lighting technology. Coburg: Müller & Schmidt, 1930
  • About gold ruby. Coburg: Müller & Schmidt, 1930
  • Philosophical letters to a worker
  • The glass industry in Jena
  • Technology and Idealism (1920)
  • Philosophy of technology. Mittler, Berlin 1917 digitized
  • Philosophy of technology. From the sense of technology and criticism of nonsense about technology. Diederichs, Jena 1914 digitized
  • World experience (1909–1913)
  • About new types of glass with increased ultraviolet permeability. In: Zeitschrift für Instrumentenkunde, 23, 1903, pp. 360–362 digitized
  • The weathering products of magnesia mica and the relationship between chemical composition and optical axis angle of mica. Inaugural dissertation, Jena 1898
  • The hyacinths (quartz) of the Gypse des Röth near Jena. In: Tschermaks Mineralogische und Petrographische Mitteilungen, 15, 1895, pp. 457–465 digitized

literature

Peter Lange: Eberhard Zschimmer (November 4, 1873 Weimar - August 15, 1940 Ettlingen), in: Ettlinger Hefte, Mitteilungen der Museumsgesellschaft Ettlingen eV and the Ettlingen City History Commission, No. 26, May 1992, pp. 15-29.

Web links

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  1. ^ Karl-Eugen Kurrer : The History of the Theory of Structures. Searching for Equilibrium . Berlin: Ernst & Sohn 2018, pp. 147f., ISBN 978-3-433-03229-9
personal data
SURNAME Zschimmer, Eberhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German mineralogist, engineer, manager, professor and author
DATE OF BIRTH November 4, 1873
PLACE OF BIRTH Weimar
DATE OF DEATH August 15, 1940
Place of death Ettlingen