Ferdinand Heberlein
Christian Otto Ferdinand Heberlein (born March 26, 1863 in Gossau SG ; † February 23, 1925 in Zurich ) was a German - Swiss metallurgical chemist and industrialist .
Life
Ferdinand Heberlein was born as the son of the Braubacher hut and Gossau mill owner Viktor Heberlein. He attended school in Gossau and from 1876 in Lahnstein . After graduating from the industrial school in Nuremberg and the Freiberg mining academy, he worked from 1883 to 1900, initially as a chemist and from 1887 as its director at the lead and silver works Pertusola at La Spezia .
In 1900 he and Thomas Huntington founded the Huntington-Heberlein company in London to utilize a process they had invented for roasting sulfur-containing copper, zinc and lead ores. In 1907 he was appointed director of the Metallbank and Metallurgical Society in Frankfurt am Main . From 1915 until his death he was a member of their board of directors. From 1915 he lived in Zurich, where he was chairman of the German Chamber of Commerce . In 1920 he received the citizenship of Zurich . He was co-owner and from 1921 to 1925 board member of the Heberlein dye works in Wattwil . Ferdinand Heberlein was a member of the Corps Franconia Freiberg .
Awards
- 1911: Awarded an honorary doctorate from the Technical University of Wroclaw
- 1922: Appointed honorary citizen of the Bergakademie Freiberg
- 1924: Awarded the Georg Agricola Memorial Medal
literature
- Adrian Knoepfli: Heberlein, Ferdinand. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
- Hans Rudolf Schmid: Heberlein, Christian Otto Ferdinand. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 8, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1969, ISBN 3-428-00189-3 , p. 170 f. ( Digitized version ).
- C. Schiffner: From the life of old Freiberg mountain students . E. Maukisch, Freiberg 1935, pp. 67-69.
Individual evidence
- ^ Corps list Corps Franconia in Freiberg, Saxony, March 5, 1838 to October 27, 1935, and Corps Franconia Fribergensis in Aachen since November 28, 1953, as of the 1985 summer semester, p. 22
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Heberlein, Ferdinand |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Heberlein, Christian Otto Ferdinand |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German-Swiss metallurgical chemist and industrialist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 26, 1863 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Gossau SG |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 23, 1925 |
| Place of death | Zurich |