Günther Bugge
Friedrich Detlef Günther Bugge (born July 23, 1885 in Godesberg , † December 15, 1944 in Konstanz ) was a German chemist and chemical historian.
Bugge received his doctorate in chemistry from the University of Munich in 1908 ("Compounds of metal salts with nitriles and isonitriles") and was then an assistant in Munich, Berlin and Danzig. In 1912 he was a chemist at the Heyden chemical factory in Radebeul . From 1913 he was at the Bergakademie Clausthal and was editor of the journal for applied chemistry . From 1918 he was the head of the library and patent department of the Holzverkohlungs-Industrie AG in Konstanz.
He became known as the editor of a two-volume collection of chemists' biographies. The volumes were reprinted in 1956 and more often, although the content was not revised, so that the work was already partially out of date when it was reissued in 1956. Contributions were made by Julius Ruska (about Zosimos from Panopolis ), Ernst Darmstaedter (about pseudo-donors ), Eduard Farber , Georg Lockemann , Paul Walden , Wilhelm Ostwald (including about Michael Faraday ), Richard Willstätter (about Adolf von Baeyer ), Max Bloch (1882–1941), Ernst Julius Cohen (via Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff ) and Otto Brunck (via Clemens Winkler ). They range to Emil Fischer (from Max Bergmann ), Paul Ehrlich and Svante Arrhenius . Bugge wrote, among other things, the article about Martin Heinrich Klaproth . Biographical information on many other chemists can be found in the footnotes.
In 1933 he became deputy chairman of the history of chemistry department of the VDCh .
In 1932 he published a call for an international association of technicians under the pseudonym Philotechnicus, which is considered to be one of the origins of the term technocracy . The movement was banned by the Nazi rulers in 1933, but the idea of an ostensibly non-political technocracy remained more widespread and met the ideas of influential circles in the National Socialist regime.
He wrote a biography of the alchemist Leonhard Thurneysser . He translated New Atlantis by Francis Bacon (re-edited in 1988 by J. Klein).
Fonts
- Publisher: The book of the great chemists, Berlin: Verlag Chemie, 2 volumes, 1929, 1930, reprint Verlag Chemie 1956, 1974
- A total of 68 biographies are included. Volume 1: From Zosimos to Schönbein (496 pp.), It contains biographies of: Zosimos von Panopolis , Albertus Magnus , Raymundus Lullus , Jābir ibn Hayyān , Pseudo-Geber , Roger Bacon , Paracelsus , Andreas Libavius , Vannoccio Biringuccio , Georgius Agricola , Pseudo- Basilius Valentinus , Johan Baptista van Helmont , Robert Boyle , Johann Rudolph Glauber , Herman Boerhaave , Georg Ernst Stahl , Carl Wilhelm Scheele , Andreas Sigismund Marggraf , Antoine Laurent de Lavoisier , Jeremias Benjamin Richter , Joseph Black , Henry Cavendish , Joseph Priestley , John Dalton , Humphry Davy , Michael Faraday , Jöns Jakob Berzelius , Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac , Claude-Louis Berthollet , Nicolas Leblanc , Étienne François Geoffroy , Joseph Louis Proust , Antoine François de Fourcroy , Louis-Nicolas Vauquelin , Louis Jacques Thénard , Martin Heinrich Klaproth , Eilhard Mitscherlich and Christian Friedrich Schönbein
- Volume 2: From Liebig to Arrhenius (558 pages), it contains biographies by: Justus Liebig , Friedrich Wöhler , Jean-Baptiste Dumas , Thomas Graham , Robert Bunsen , Charles Frédéric Gerhardt , Auguste Laurent , Charles Adolphe Wurtz , Hermann Kolbe , August Wilhelm von Hofmann , Louis Pasteur , Stanislao Cannizzaro , Marcelin Berthelot , August Kekulé , Johann Peter Grieß , Lothar Meyer , Dmitri Iwanowitsch Mendelejew , William Ramsay , William Crookes , Heinrich Caro , Adolph Frank , Adolf von Baeyer , Clemens Winkler , Georg Lunge , Heinrich von Brunck , Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff , Victor Meyer , Emil Fischer , Paul Ehrlich and Svante Arrhenius .
- The authors, some of whom were among the leading chemical historians and chemists of the time, were (with the biography articles they wrote in brackets): Julius Ruska (Zosimos, Jabir / Geber, pseudo-Geber), Franz Strunz (Roger Bacon, Albertus Magnus, Raymundus Lullus, Paracelsus, van Helmont), Wilhelm Ostwald (Richter, Dalton, Davy, Faraday), Eduard Färber (Boyle, Berthollet, Proust, Berthelot, Schönbein), Otto Johannsen (Biringuccio), Henrik Gustaf Söderbaum (Berzelius), Felix Fritz (Basilius Valentinus), Rudolf Winderlich (Liebig, Wöhler, Kekulé), Ferdinand Henrich (Dumas, Victor Meyer), Max Speter (Boerhaave, Geoffroy the Elder, Marggraf, Black, Lavoisier, Graham, Cannizzaro with B. Lino Vanzetti), Otto Fuchs (Bunsen), Max Bloch (Leblanc, Fourcroy and Vauquelin, Gay-Lussac and Thenard, Gerhardt, Laurent), Günther Bugge (Klaproth, Mitscherlich, Wurtz), Georg Lockemann (Cavendish, Priestley, Scheele, Kolbe), Bernhard Lepsius ( August Wilhelm von Hofmann), Richard Koch (steel , Pasteur, Paul Ehrlich), Hermann Großmann (Peter Grieß, Adolph Frank, Heinrich von Brunck), Paul Walden (Glauber, Lothar Meyer, Mendelejew, Ramsay), Karl Przibram (Crookes), Ernst Darmstaedter (Agricola, Heinrich Caro, Libavius) , Richard Willstätter (Adolf von Baeyer), Otto Brunck (Clemens Winkler), Emil Bosshard (Georg Lunge), Ernst Julius Cohen (Van t'Hoff), Max Bergmann (Emil Fischer), Wilhelm Palmaer (Arrhenius)
- The alchemist. The story of Leonhard Thurneysser, the gold maker from Berlin , Berlin: Wilhelm Limpert Verlag, 1939, 1944
- Guns and explosives and the men who created them , Stuttgart: Franckh'sche Verlagshandlung, 1942
literature
- Obituary in: Die Chemie , Volume 58, 1944, p. 48
- Entry in: Wilhelm Kosch u. a .: German Literature Lexicon . The 20th Century , Saur, De Gruyter 2012, Volume 4
Individual evidence
- ^ Review by H. Schimank in Angewandte Chemie, Volume 68, 1956, p. 596.
- ^ Professor of Chemistry in Leningrad
- ↑ Stefan Willeke, The Technocracy Movement Between the World Wars and the "Culture Factor Technology" , in: Burkhard Dietz, Michael Fessner, Helmut Maier (Eds.), Technical Intelligence and "Culture Factor Technology" : Cultural ideas of technicians and engineers between the German Empire and the early Federal Republic, Waxmann, 1996, p. 203
- ^ Günther Bugge (Philotechnicus): Technokratie, in: Technik Voran!, Volume 14, 1932, pp. 296–299, 313–316
- ↑ Helmut Maier, chemist in the "Third Reich", Wiley-VCH, 2015, p. 329
- ↑ Pages based on the 1956 edition
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Bugge, Günther |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Bugge, Friedrich Detlef Günther (full name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German chemist and chemical historian |
DATE OF BIRTH | July 23, 1885 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Godesberg |
DATE OF DEATH | December 15, 1944 |
Place of death | Constancy |