Gustav Karsten

Gustav Karsten (born November 24, 1820 in Berlin , † March 16, 1900 in Kiel ) was a German mineralogist and physicist . He worked as a university lecturer and politician in Kiel.

Life

Gustav Karsten (No. 7-2-5 of the gender census that began with his great-grandfather ) was the son of the Berlin mineralogist Carl Karsten and studied mathematics and natural sciences . He completed his habilitation in 1845 at the Friedrich Wilhelms University in Berlin . In 1847 he became associate professor for mineralogy, geology, physical geography and physicist at Christian-Albrechts-Universität Kiel (CAU) and in 1852 full professor for mineralogy and physics. He was mainly a physicist, but also gave lectures on mineralogy and added to the university's mineralogical collection. Marine physics was one of his research areas. The later anthropologist and ethnologist Franz Boas was Karsten's doctoral student .

In 1859 Karsten was made director of calibration for the Elbe duchies . In 1859/60, 1860/61, 1864/65 and 1890/91 he was rector of the CAU. In 1869 Karsten was appointed to the imperial calibration commission. The organization of the calibration system he introduced in the Elbe duchies was later transferred to the new institutions in the German Empire . Karsten was a managing member of the Prussian Commission established in 1870 for the scientific investigation of the German seas . It dealt with the planning of the later to I. William named the Kiel Canal . In 1894 he retired .

As a member of the Masonic Lodge Alma on the Baltic Sea in Kiel, he was temporarily their master of the chair . In 1858 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina .

In 1845 he was one of the founders of the German Physical Society .

Karsten was the editor of a General Encyclopedia of Physics , published by Leopold Voss .

From 1867 to 1872 Karsten sat in the Prussian House of Representatives .

For the Progressive Party he was a member of the German Reichstag from 1877 to 1884 .

Course in mechanical science. Three volumes, Kiel 1849–1853.
Investigations into the behavior of the dissolution of the pure common salt in water. Berlin 1846.
Memorandum on the great north German canal. Kiel 1865.
Contributions to the regional studies of the duchies of Schleswig and Holstein. Two volumes, Berlin 1869 and 1872.

Wikisource: Gustav Karsten - Sources and full texts

↑ Horst Küppers : On the history of mineralogy in Kiel , 2007, pdf ( Memento of the original from July 27, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2
↑ DPG
↑ Boas´ dissertation: Contributions to the knowledge of the color of water (1881)
↑ Rector's speeches (HKM)
↑ Bernhard Mann (arrangement) with the assistance of Martin Doerry , Cornelia Rauh , Thomas Kühne: Biographisches Handbuch für das Prussische Abrafenhaus 1867–1918 (= handbooks on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 3). Droste, Düsseldorf 1988, ISBN 3-7700-5146-7 , p. 208; for the election results see Thomas Kühne: Handbook of elections to the Prussian House of Representatives 1867–1918. Election results, election alliances and election candidates (= handbooks on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 6). Droste, Düsseldorf 1994, ISBN 3-7700-5182-3 , pp. 488-490 and pp. 493-495.
^ Fritz Specht, Paul Schwabe: The Reichstag elections from 1867 to 1903. Statistics of the Reichstag elections together with the programs of the parties and a list of the elected representatives. 2nd Edition. Carl Heymann Verlag, Berlin 1904, p. 113.

personal data
SURNAME	Karsten, Gustav
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German mineralogist, physicist and politician (DFP), MdR; Rector of the University of Kiel
DATE OF BIRTH	November 24, 1820
PLACE OF BIRTH	Berlin
DATE OF DEATH	March 16, 1900
Place of death	Kiel