Eugene English

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Eugen English (1893)

Wilhelm Eugen Englisch (born October 2, 1869 in Teinach , † March 14, 1905 in Stuttgart ) was a German photochemist and professor of photography at the Technical University of Stuttgart.

Life

After graduating from secondary school in Mannheim, English studied chemistry from the winter semester of 1887 to 1893 at the universities of Munich , Tübingen and Hanover . In Tübingen he became a member of the student union Landsmannschaft Scotland .

In 1893 he was in Tübingen with a dissertation on the thermoelectric behavior of amalgams to Dr. sc. nat. PhD . In 1894 he was assistant to Georg Hermann Quincke in Heidelberg and in 1895/1896 to Anton Oberbeck in Tübingen. Then his health condition forced him to interrupt regular academic work for long years.

It was not until 1901, English was at the Technical University of Stuttgart with an investigation into the Schwärzungsgesetz for gelatine silver bromide habilitation . For his inaugural lecture, he chose the subject of photography as a science .

English saw it as his greatest life work to help photography gain recognition as a science and scientific working method. For this purpose, he founded the Archive for Scientific Photography in 1899 , which since 1903 together with Karl Schaum , continued and existed until 1970 for scientific photography, photophysics and photochemistry . His Photographisches Compendium (1905) is the first textbook on photography on a modern scientific basis.

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personal data
SURNAME English, Eugene
ALTERNATIVE NAMES English, Wilhelm Eugen (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German chemist
DATE OF BIRTH October 2, 1869
PLACE OF BIRTH Teinach
DATE OF DEATH March 14, 1905
Place of death Stuttgart