Fridericianum (Leipzig)
The Fridericianum (also Friedericianum ) was built between 1842 and 1844 for the University of Leipzig, among other things for experimental chemical work. The building on Schillerstraße in the southeastern part of the city center was destroyed in the heavy air raid on Leipzig in early December 1943.
location
The Fridericianum was on the city side of Schillerstraße and was number 7. It was opposite the First Citizens' School, which had been built on the Moritzbastei from 1796 . Today the canteen at the park of the University of Leipzig is located on part of the former Fridericianum .
history
The chemical work room
The Fridericianum 1925
Although a professorship for chemistry had existed at the university since 1710, a makeshift chemical laboratory was not set up in Pleißenburg until 1804 . This situation changed in 1844. The university had acquired land on Schillerstrasse and had Albert Geutebrück erect a three-story building with 21 window axes. This was followed by a residential building up to the corner of Universitätsstrasse.
The purpose of the new building was initially called Chemicum . From 1856 the name Fridericianum came up, which is generally related to the middle name of King Friedrich August . However, a derivation from the Leipzig family of chemists Friederici in the 18th century cannot be ruled out.
The first director at the Chemicum was Otto Linné Erdmann . The institute had the ground floor as well as the basement and cellar rooms of an entire wing of the building. For example, there was a “work cabinet” and a private laboratory for the director, an analytical and a “technical-pharmaceutical [es]” laboratory, an auditorium, but also a separate “instrument and preparation room”. There was also "a fairly rich collection of chemical preparations" and a collection of minerals.
The University of Antiquities Museum also moved into the Fridericianum and was open to the public in addition to teaching.
In 1871 Gustav Wiedemann took over the first ordinariate for physical chemistry in Germany and thus became director of the second chemical laboratory in the Fridericianum, for which the designation "physical-chemical laboratory" quickly became established.
With the construction of the chemical institute in Waisenhausstrasse in 1868 (since 1879 Liebigstrasse), the Fridericianum slowly lost its importance for chemistry, and it was used by other university facilities. In a compilation of the university for the year 1943 the psychological seminar, the psychological-pedagogical institute and the oriental institute are given for the Fridericianum.
In the heavy air raid on Leipzig on December 4, 1943, the Fridericianum was completely destroyed and, after clearing, the area was temporarily used as a parking lot until the new university buildings were erected.
Trivia
In addition to the university's teaching and research rooms, the Fridericianum also housed the private living quarters of the institute's director. The sons of Otto Linné Erdmann, who later became a genre painter in Düsseldorf, Otto Erdmann and the physician Bernhard Arthur Erdmann , spent their youth here.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Festschrift to celebrate the 500th anniversary of the University of Leipzig
- ↑ Ernst Müller: The house names of old Leipzig . (Writings of the Association for the History of Leipzig, Volume 15). Leipzig 1931, reprint Ferdinand Hirt 1990, ISBN 3-7470-0001-0 , p. 78
- ^ Collections of the Chemical Institute - see history
- ^ History of the Antique Museum
- ↑ Physico-chemical collection - see history
- ^ University facilities in 1943
- ↑ City map Leipzig 1967, VEB Landkartenverlag Berlin
- ^ Lothar Beyer / Horst Remane: Justus von Liebig to Otto Linné Erdmann - commented on letters from 1836 to 1848, Leipzig 2016, p. 222.
Coordinates: 51 ° 20 ′ 15.1 ″ N , 12 ° 22 ′ 43 ″ E