Franz Xaver Pettenkofer

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Franz Xaver Pettenkofer (born December 3, 1783 in Pobenhausen , † March 12, 1850 in Munich ) was a German pharmacist .

Life

Pettenkofer was appointed Oberfeld pharmacist in 1823 because of his services to the Bavarian court and personal pharmacist.

Together with Johann Nepomuk von Fuchs , during the reconstruction of the Royal Court and National Theater , which burned down in 1823, he developed a process to reduce the inflammability of wood. They came up with the idea of covering decorations and scaffolding with water glass . Later they also treated painted backdrops with the fire retardant, but found that it caused paint damage. So they set about mixing waterglass with inorganic color pigments . The new painting process was named stereochromy .

His nephew was Max von Pettenkofer .

literature

  • In memory of the royal Bavarian court and personal pharmacist Dr. F. Xav. Pettenkofer. Carl Wolf, Munich 1850, digitized
  • Martin Weyer-von Schoultz: Max von Pettenkofer (1818–1901). The emergence of modern hygiene from empirical studies of human livelihoods. Lang, Frankfurt am Main [a. a.] 2006, ISBN 3-631-54119-8 , excerpts

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Walter Ackermann: Johann Nepomuk Fuchs (1774-1856). Mineralogist and chemist. Die Oberpfalz, 2018, 106th year, pp. 92–96.
personal data
SURNAME Pettenkofer, Franz Xaver
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pharmacist
DATE OF BIRTH December 3, 1783
PLACE OF BIRTH Pobenhausen
DATE OF DEATH March 12, 1850
Place of death Munich