Friedrich Ludwig Knapp

Friedrich Ludwig Knapp (born February 22, 1814 in Michelstadt , † June 8, 1904 in Braunschweig ) was a German chemist. He is considered the old master of chemical technology.

family

Knapp was the son of the Privy Councilor of State Johann Friedrich Knapp and his wife Elisabethe Christine, born Louis (1787–1862). On June 1, 1841, he married Katharina Elisabeth Liebig (1819–1890), the sister of the chemist Justus von Liebig, in Darmstadt . The marriage produced four children, including the economist Georg Friedrich Knapp .

Life

Friedrich Knapp attended grammar school in Darmstadt and completed an apprenticeship as a pharmacist there from 1832 to 1835 before switching to Justus Liebig at the University of Gießen to study chemistry . There he completed his habilitation in 1838 and was appointed professor of technology in 1841. In 1853, Knapp went to Munich as a professor in the state economics faculty and works clerk at the royal porcelain factory, and in 1863 followed a call to professor of technical chemistry at the Carolinum in Braunschweig . His son Georg Friedrich commented: " I came to Braunschweig for the first time at the end of September. My parents lived in a very uncomfortable apartment on Neue Strasse because there was no other vacant apartment. I liked the old Low German town very much. " the Knapp family got a representative apartment in the Vieweghaus on Burgplatz , where they stayed for more than 40 years.

plant

Knapp delivered several groundbreaking studies in the field of chemical technology, namely very important work on leather preparation; his main achievement was the textbook of chemical technology (Braunschweig 1847), which linked science and practice.

Knapp also published Technologische Wandtafeln (Münch. 1855–63, 16 deliveries) and translated the first part of John Percy's Metallurgy (Braunschweig 1862).

literature

• Wolfgang Schneider:  Knapp, Friedrich. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 12, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1980, ISBN 3-428-00193-1 , p. 151 ( digitized version ).

Web links

• University of Braunschweig - Milestones: Friedrich Ludwig Knapp (PDF file; 34 kB)