Ernst Carstanjen

Ernst Carstanjen (born July 2, 1836 in Duisburg , †  July 13, 1884 in Leipzig ) was a German chemist .

Career and professional activity

Carstanjen came from a family that became prosperous in the 18th century through shipping on the Rhine between Rotterdam and Duisburg. Ernst Carstanjen enabled the family company Carl & Wilhelm Carstanjen to undergo structural change in the 1850s.

After high school, he began to study mountain sciences at the University of Bonn in 1854 and continued this course after a two-year practical course in Essen at the Bergakademie Freiberg . In Bonn he joined the Corps Hansea and in Freiberg the Corps Franconia .

After that, he focused on chemistry . He did his doctorate in Berlin in 1861 on cobalt-ammonia compounds and then became an assistant to Franz Leopold Sonnenschein . In 1868 he completed his habilitation as a lecturer in chemistry at the University of Leipzig and then devoted himself primarily to organic chemistry . He taught in Leipzig until his death, since 1873 as an associate professor.

In his scientific publications, Carstanjen dealt, among other things, with thallium , quinones and acidic compounds.

Web links

• Hermann Kolbe : Ernst Carstanjen †. (Obituary.) In: Journal for practical chemistry. New episode. Volume 30. First and Second Issue (July 31, 1884). P. 96.
• Ernst Carstanjen in the professorial catalog of the University of Leipzig
• Overview of Ernst Carstanjen's courses at the University of Leipzig (winter semester 1870 to summer semester 1884)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Cf. Volker Gedrath: Forgotten Traditions of Social Pedagogy. Weinheim; Basel; Berlin: Beltz 2003. p. 196 .
2. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1930, 11 , 118
3. ^ Hans-Ulrich Textor: Major-General William August Kobbé . In: then and now. Yearbook of the Association for Corporate Student History Research 55 (2010), p. 167.
4. ↑ ^{a b c} Die Todtenschau of 1884. Chemiker-Zeitung, 1885, Volume IX, No. 2 (PDF; 4.8 MB) p. 21.