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Eugen Gottfried Julius Hausbrand (born September 14, 1845 in Wehlau ( East Prussia ), † January 15, 1922 in Berlin ) was a German apparatus manufacturer , industrialist and engineer .

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Hausbrand prepared for his professional life from 1866 by studying engineering at the general department of the Berlin Trade Institute ; (from 1879 TH ). After completing his studies, he took up a position at the Ruffer machine factory in Breslau in 1869 . This employment relationship, interrupted by his participation in the Franco-Prussian War (1870/71), lasted until he switched to the coppersmiths of Carl Justus Heckmann (Berlin), known far beyond the borders of Germany, in April 1875.

Thanks to his high level of professional competence, Heckmann Hausbrand quickly transferred the power of attorney and, after Heckmann's death in 1878, managed the company for more than forty years until his death. Although the Heckmann company was founded as a coppersmith's shop, over time it developed into a renowned manufacturing facility for apparatus engineering with branches in Wroclaw, Moscow and Havana. With the development and construction of distillation plants as well as equipment for the sugar industry, the company developed into an apparatus construction found worldwide recognition.

Hausbrand revolutionized the process engineering , which up until then could be called contemplative , which was essentially empirically shaped and, quoting Franz Reuleaux , cheap and bad , by doing basic research in the field of physical-chemical processes and publishing his findings in several books that quickly became standard works for plant engineers, designers, process engineers, etc. His, Hausbrands, published in 1893 monographs on the chemical processes and apparatuses of distillation , evaporation , condensation , cooling and drying in connection with his auxiliary book for apparatus construction gave the boiler makers and coopers , and the engineers working in this field decisive guidelines for making things easier the construction of devices and devices in this field of activity.

The needless and restless but in professional circles always known as cooperative bachelor Hausbrand received only hesitant recognition and access to the curriculum at colleges and universities. He was highly valued in the USA, where Warren K. Lewis praised Hausbrand as "the world first process engineer" (he was the first process engineer in the world) . It was only twenty years after his fundamental publications and two days before his death that the TH Berlin awarded him an honorary doctorate.

Publications

  • Hausbrand, E .: The mode of action d. Rectifying u. Stills . Berlin: Published by Julius Springer 1893.
  • Hausbrand, E .: Drying with air and steam . Berlin: Published by Julius Springer 1898.
  • House fire, E .: Evaporation, condensation, cooling . Berlin: Published by Julius Springer 1899
  • Hausbrand, E .: Auxiliary book for apparatus construction . Berlin: Published by Julius Springer 1901.
  • Hausbrand, E .: From coppersmith to large-scale industry. Shown in the life work of CJ Heckmann . in: Contributions to the history of technology and industry, Vol. 13 (1923); Pp. 61-88.

literature

  • Schröder, H .: Eugen Hausbrand † ; Chem. Ind. - Leipzig (1922) pp. 41-42; (There is also an obituary in VDI-Z - Berlin (1922); p. 447)
  • Krug, K., Meincke, K.-P .: Eugen Gottfried Julius Hausbrand (1845–1922). The scientific penetration of apparatus engineering . In: Life pictures of engineering scientists, ed. v. Gisela Buchheim and Rolf Sonnemann, pp. 106–115. Leipzig: VEB Fachbuchverlag 1989, ISBN 3-343-00504-5 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gustav Heinrich von Ruffer. Albert Gieseler, accessed on March 1, 2020 .
  2. ^ Heckmann, Carl Justus - short biography. ChemieFreunde Erkner eV, April 19, 2007, accessed on March 3, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Heinz Tegtmeier: house fire, Eugen Gottfried Julius. German biography, accessed March 3, 2020 .
  4. ↑ a b c Klaus Krug : Hausbrand, Eugen Gottfried Julius , Lexicon of Important Natural Scientists, 2007, Volume 2; Elsevier GmbH, Munich; P. 165; ISBN 3-8274-1883-6
personal data
SURNAME House fire, Eugene
ALTERNATIVE NAMES House fire, Eugen Gottfried Justus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German engineer and industrialist
DATE OF BIRTH September 14, 1845
PLACE OF BIRTH Wehlau , East Prussia
DATE OF DEATH January 15, 1922
Place of death Berlin