Emil Wohlwill

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Emil Wohlwill (born November 24, 1835 in Seesen , † February 2, 1912 in Hamburg ) was a German chemist and science historian .

Life

Gravestone for Emil Wohlwill , Ohlsdorf cemetery

Emil Wohlwill was the son of the educator and Jewish publicist Immanuel Wohlwill and his wife Friederike Reichel Warburg . He spent his childhood in Seesen and Blankenburg . In 1851 he went to Hamburg to attend the Johanneum and the Academic Gymnasium. In 1855 he studied chemistry in Heidelberg , Berlin and Göttingen .

After his return to Hamburg, he first taught physics at Hamburg trade schools and worked as a commercial chemist before taking up a position as an analytical chemist at the Elbhütten-Affiniergesellschaft . Here he dealt with the separation of non-ferrous metals . In 1875 he achieved his breakthrough, first with the separation of copper and silver , and later also with gold . His electrolytic process of divorce is now known as the Wohlwill process .

At the same time, Wohlwill dealt with the history of science. Galileo Galilei was at the center of his considerations . For years he worked on a book about the physicist that was ultimately never finished. A first volume appeared in 1909 under the title Galileo and his Struggle for Copernican Doctrine , a second volume was compiled from the estate and published in 1926.

Wohlwill was a liberal free thinker and a representative of enlightened Judaism. For years he fought for citizenship in Hamburg, which was granted to him in 1865. He then resigned from the Jewish community. In 1867 he became a member of the Patriotic Society in Hamburg.

Emil Wohlwill was married to Louise Nathan. You were part of the large, widespread Wohlwill family in Hamburg. Her daughter Gretchen Wohlwill (1878–1962) was a well-known Hamburg painter, her son Friedrich Wohlwill (1881–1958) was a well-known doctor. A stumbling block was laid in front of the Patriotic Society in Hamburg for their eldest son Heinrich Wohlwill (1874–1943), who was murdered in Theresienstadt and who was his father's successor on the board of directors of the Norddeutsche Affinerie .

Emil Wohlwill was buried in the Ohlsdorf cemetery in Hamburg, grid square U 29 ( Kapellenstrasse east of Lippertplatz ).

Works

  • Was Galileo Tortured? A critical study. Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1877. ( archive.org )

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c stumbling blocks for Jewish members. A biographical search for traces of the Patriotic Society from 1765. (PDF) Publication on the occasion of the laying of stumbling blocks in front of the house of the Patriotic Society for the 250th anniversary. Hamburg 2015.
  2. ↑ Hamburg personalities: Emil Wohlwill
  3. ↑ Anne of Villiez: Wohlwill, Friedrich . In: Franklin Kopitzsch, Dirk Brietzke (Hrsg.): Hamburgische Biographie . tape 6 . Wallstein, Göttingen 2012, ISBN 978-3-8353-1025-4 , p. 375 .
  4. ↑ Celebrity Graves
personal data
SURNAME Good will, Emil
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German chemist and science historian
DATE OF BIRTH November 24, 1835
PLACE OF BIRTH Seesen
DATE OF DEATH February 2, 1912
Place of death Hamburg