Eduard Reichardt

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Eduard Reichardt (born October 19, 1827 in Camburg ( Saale ), † October 26 or 27, 1891 in Jena ) was a German agricultural chemist.

Live and act

Reichardt first completed an apprenticeship as a pharmacist and studied chemistry and pharmacy at the University of Jena since 1850 . During his studies he became a member of the Germania Jena fraternity in the winter semester of 1850/51 . In 1854 he got a job as a chemistry teacher at the Agricultural Institute affiliated with the University of Jena. In 1857 he completed his habilitation and in 1862 he was appointed associate professor. Until his death he held lectures on agricultural chemistry, technical chemistry and pharmacy at the University of Jena. At the same time he was in charge of the agricultural chemistry department at the Agricultural Research Station in Jena. Here he carried out a number of phytochemical and physiological experiments and demonstrated, among other things, that iron oxides and clay absorb and release plenty of carbonic acid, which dissolves calcium carbonate (carbonate of lime) and magnesia as well as calcium phosphate (phosphoric acid of lime) in the soil.

His treatise Das Steinsalzbergwerk Stassfurth near Magdeburg , published in 1860 in the series of publications of the Imperial Leopoldine-Carolinian German Academy of Natural Scientists (Leopoldina), was significant for agriculture . This treatise, which was also published as an independent publication, was the decisive impetus for the large-scale production of potash salts, which soon began, and made a lasting contribution to the fact that farmers used potash and other mineral salts as fertilizers. Eduard Reichardt was a member of the Leopoldina from 1858.

A leitmotif of his research was to apply the findings of the natural sciences in the practice of agriculture. Several independent works and a number of smaller treatises served this purpose. The extensive work Ackerbauchemie or chemistry in its application to agriculture, published in 1861, is considered to be his most important publication on agricultural chemistry .

During the last twenty years of his life, Reichardt mainly dealt with questions about improving the quality of drinking water. During this time he published his four-time book Basics for the Assessment of Drinking Water . For many years Reichardt was one of the leading authorities in the field of drinking water supply. In 1872 he prepared an expert opinion for Bad Kohlgrub and recommended the place as a health resort, especially for health- promoting mud baths, due to its climate and its moors . At times Reichardt edited the pharmacy archive .

Fonts

  • About the chemical components of cinchona bark. A chemical-physiological treatise . Award-winning publication from the Philosophical Faculty of Jena. Schwetschke, Braunschweig 1855.
  • The theory of heat. An attempt to clarify the phenomena of heat, light and electricity . Doebereiner, Jena 1857.
  • The chemical compounds of inorganic chemistry, classified according to their electro-chemical behavior, including the minerals that can be expressed by formulas . Enke, Erlangen 1858.
  • The Stassfurth rock salt mine near Magdeburg . In: Negotiations of the Imperial Leopoldine-Carolinian German Academy of Natural Scientists, Vol. 27, 1860. Zugl. as an independent font from Frommann, Jena 1860.
  • Agriculture chemistry or chemistry in its application to agriculture . Enke, Erlangen 1861.
  • Disinfection and disinfectants . Enke, Erlangen 1867; 2. strongly probable u. reworked Ed. Enke, Stuttgart 1881.
  • Basics for assessing drinking water, at the same time taking into account its usefulness for commercial purposes. For authorities, doctors, pharmacists, technicians . Doebereiner, Jena 1869; 2nd probably edition Mauke, Jena 1872; 3rd very probable edition, ibid. 1875; 4. very likely u. Supplementary edition bookstore of the orphanage, Halle 1880.

literature

  • Theodor Freiherr von der Goltz: Eduard Reichardt . In: Leopoldina . Issue 27, year 1891, pp. 196–199 (with list of publications).

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gustav Heinrich Schneider : The fraternity Germania zu Jena. A commemorative publication. Jena 1897, p. 565.

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personal data
SURNAME Reichardt, Eduard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German agricultural chemist
DATE OF BIRTH October 19, 1827
PLACE OF BIRTH Camburg
DATE OF DEATH October 26, 1891 or October 27, 1891
Place of death Jena