Friedrich L. Boschke

Friedrich Ludwig Boschke (born February 28, 1920 in Barkhausen (Porta Westfalica) , † September 28, 1999 in Heidelberg ) was a German chemist and science author.

Actually Friedrich Libertus Boschke.

Life

Boschke studied chemistry in Göttingen and Marburg and received his diploma from Hans Meerwein in 1947 with a diploma thesis on aromatic diazonium salts. He then worked in the editorial department of Angewandte Chemie at Verlag Chemie , which appeared again from 1947 (headed by W. Foerst) and whose editorial office was first in Fronhausen near Marburg, from 1952 in Heidelberg and from 1970 in Weinheim. He was also co-editor of the news from chemistry and technology from the publishing house chemistry and in the Umschau publishing house of chemistry for laboratory and enterprise . In 1964 he went to Springer Verlag . He was there from 1967 to 1983 editor of The Sciences and the Advances in Chemical Research (later Topics in Current Chemistry ). Most recently at Springer he was head of the chemistry department at Springer Verlag and was also a lecturer in chemistry literature at the University of Mainz. He last lived in Bammental .

He wrote nonfiction books on astronomy, the origin of life and environmental protection, some of which were translated into several languages ​​and had high editions (like his book The Creation Is Not Ended), and published under the pseudonym Godber Nicolay Tomby or GN Tomby. In his role as a publisher's editor, he was also involved in the editing of a number of chemistry books.

Honors

• GDCh Prize for Journalists and Writers (1988)
• Technology and Public Prize from the German Association of Technical and Scientific Associations
• Honorary doctorate from the Philipps University of Marburg (1974)

Fonts

• Creation is not over yet. Scientists on the trail of Genesis . Econ, Düsseldorf 1962 ( No. 1 on the Spiegel bestseller list from May 16 to August 7, 1962 )
• The environment is not a paradise. Illusion and reality . DVA, Stuttgart 1986. ISBN 978-3421027436 .
• The origin of life. Scientists on the trail of the last puzzles . Econ, Düsseldorf 1970. ISBN 9783430114523 .
• And 1000 years are like a day: time, the misunderstood phenomenon , Bertelsmann 1979. ISBN 9783426036754 .
• Earth from other stars . Econ, Düsseldorf 1965.
• The world of fire and water. A volcano travel book . Hirzel 1981. ISBN 9783777603773 .
• Nuclear energy: a challenge of our time . Birkhäuser 1988. ISBN 978-3034866842 .
• English for Chemists . Stuttgart: Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellschaft 1973. ISBN 978-3804704541 .
• Research starts at the desk. About the delicacy of combining publications and publicity . Econ 1967.
• with Heinzwerner Preuss : The chemical bond. An understandable introduction . Springer 1975. ISBN 978-3540070412 .
• The unexplored. The unknown world we live in . Heyne 1977. ISBN 978-3453007574 .

literature

• Clarissa: Clarissas Krambude: Authors tell of their pseudonyms . Novum Pro 2011.

Web links

• Literature BW
• Brief overview of the development of chemistry at the Philipps University of Marburg from 1609 to the present, pdf (with biography)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Date and place of death according to information from the Bammental community