Friedrich Kodweiss

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Friedrich Kodweiss (born January 24, 1802 in Cannstatt , † December 25, 1866 in Hainburg , Lower Austria ) was a German chemist .

Life

Kodweiss, who was a great-nephew of his mother Schiller , was tutored by a private tutor from the age of 6 to 15. He then learned in Darmstadt , the pharmacy , conditioned in various places and went in 1823 to the University of Heidelberg . Then after a year in Darmstadt he passed the pharmacy exam.

He was given the management of a pharmacy in the Grand Duchy of Hesse . In order to be able to devote himself to the study of the natural sciences again, he went to the University of Giessen in 1829 , where he received his Dr. phil. received his doctorate. He worked briefly for Justus von Liebig in Gießen and then took over as administrator of a sugar factory near Kuchelbad in Bohemia . On Liebig's recommendation, he came to work as a chemist in a tobacco factory in Hainburg in 1853.

In Bohemia, Kodweiss worked as a consultant in the construction of sugar factories and developed a method of clarifying juice with lime , which was introduced in all Bohemian sugar factories. Kodweiss also introduced various technical improvements in the field of tobacco manufacture.

Publications

  • Brief description of the presentation of beet sugar in the Hochfürstlich Oettingen-Wallerstein'schen factory in Kuchel . Prague 1834.

literature

personal data
SURNAME Kodweiss, Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German chemist
DATE OF BIRTH January 24, 1802
PLACE OF BIRTH Cannstatt
DATE OF DEATH December 25, 1866
Place of death Hainburg