Friedrich Kodweiss
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
- Oberhummer: Kodweis, Friedrich. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 4, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1969, p. 26.
- Wolfgang-Hagen Hein, Holm-Dietmar Schwarz (eds.): Deutsche Apotheker-Biographie, supplementary volume 1, Wissenschaftliche Verlags-Gesellschaft, Stuttgart 1986, ISBN 3-8047-0882-X , S. #.
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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 |