Heinrich August von Vogel

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Heinrich August Vogel , since 1850 Heinrich August von Vogel (born July 25, 1778 in Westerhof , † November 24, 1867 in Munich ) was a German chemist .

Life

Heinrich August Vogel grew up in Schwarzenbek , where his father was transferred as a governor shortly after his birth. After attending the cathedral school in Ratzeburg , he first studied chemistry for one semester each in Göttingen and Rostock, trained in Hanover with the pharmacist and chief miner Johann Ludwig Wilhelm Gruner (1771–1881) and finally switched to the 1797 of Johann Schaub (1770–1819 ) chemical training institute established in Kassel. In September 1802 he set out on foot to Paris, where he was accepted into the house of the pharmacist Edme Jean Baptiste Bouillon-Lagrange and supported him in the translation of the second part of his work Manuel d'un cours de chimie . After winning the first prize in chemistry at a concurs advertised by the Ecole de Pharmacie, in addition to the gold medal presented by Antoine François de Fourcroy , he was employed as a taxidermist at the newly established Ecole de Pharmacie, to which he later also worked as a conservator and professor adjoint . Thanks to his translations of the works of German scientists (Klaproth and Remers) into French, Vogel became a mediator between German and French scientific cultures during his time in Paris.

At the suggestion of Martin Heinrich Klaproth and Johann Bartholomäus Trommsdorff , following a request from the Bavarian Academy of Sciences on December 13, 1815, he was appointed as the successor of the deceased Adolph Ferdinand Gehlen as academic curator of the chemical laboratory in Munich, with a handwritten letter from Minister Maximilian von Montgelas dated March 1816 Heinrich August Vogel was served in Paris.

Vogel accepted the appointment and worked in Munich from 1816. In 1820 he carried out the first complete course in chemistry in the chemistry laboratory, which was only partially completed at that time.

When King Ludwig I ordered the transfer of the university, which was founded in Ingolstadt in 1472 and moved to Landshut from 1800 to the residential city of Munich, in the winter semester of 1826 , Heinrich August Vogel became a full professor of chemistry in the Philosophical Faculty of the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . This faculty brought with them the two chemists Johann Nepomuk Fuchs and Johann Andreas Buchner from Landshut , who remained on friendly terms with him throughout their lives. Almost at the same time, Vogel also became a professor of general technical chemistry at the Polytechnic Central School, which he initially took little seriously and therefore entrusted his assistant F. Leo with the lecture obligation.

Vogel family grave monument in the old south cemetery in Munich.

In 1830/1832 he published a textbook on chemistry as a guide for his lectures for university students.

Heinrich August von Vogel retired in 1852.

His focus was on the organized dissemination of chemical knowledge, less on research. Artillery officers and medical students alike enjoyed his lively experimental lecture.

Vogel was a co-founder (donor) of the Polytechnic Association for the Kingdom of Bavaria.

Heinrich August von Vogel was buried in the Old Southern Cemetery in Munich (New Departments, Grave Field 29 - Row 1 - Place 04).

Awards and honors

In 1816 Heinrich August Vogel became a full member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and on November 28, 1818 under matriculation no. 1120 with the academic nickname Bergmann I. as a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina added.

In 1814 he was awarded an honorary doctorate from the Philosophical Faculty of the Georg-August University in Göttingen . On November 12, 1819, Hofrat August Vogel was awarded an honorary doctorate from the Medical Faculty of the University of Rostock .

In 1850 he was awarded the Order of Merit of the Bavarian Crown .

family

The doctor Rudolf Augustin Vogel was his grandfather and the doctor Samuel Gottlieb Vogel was his uncle.

Heinrich August was married to Sara Maria, née Schlichtegroll (1796–1873), the daughter of Friedrich von Schlichtegroll .

The agricultural chemist August Vogel and the pediatrician Alfred Vogel were her sons.

Fonts

  • with Karl Caesar von Leonhard : Mineralogical-chemical investigations of triphan's and tantalite's . Lentner, Munich 1818. (digitized version)
  • The mineral springs of the Kingdom of Bavaria. On behalf of the royal. State Ministry of the Interior chemically examined for their quantitative components . Central-Schulbücher-Verlag, Munich 1829. (digitized version)
  • Chemistry textbook. As a guideline for his lectures for university students and for self-teaching . First volume, Cotta, Munich / Stuttgart / Tübingen 1830. (digitized)
  • Chemistry textbook. As a guideline for his lectures for university students and for self-teaching . Second volume, Cotta, Munich / Stuttgart / Tübingen 1832. (digitized)

literature

  • Helene von Berchem: The noble burial places in the southern cemetery in Munich. Collected by Helene Freifrau von Berchem. Kellerer, Munich 1913, p. 72.
  • August Vogel: Speech on Heinrich August von Vogel. Held in the public meeting of the k. Academy of Sciences on March 28, 1868 by August Vogel . Munich 1868. (digitized version)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Kai Torsten Kanz: Nationalism and international cooperation in the natural sciences. The Franco-German Scientific Relations between Revolution and Restoration, 1789-1832 . Steiner, Stuttgart 1997, ISBN 3-515-07079-6 , pp. 125 .
  2. ^ Johann Daniel Ferdinand Neigebaur : History of the Imperial Leopoldino-Carolinian German Academy of Natural Scientists during the second century of its existence . Friedrich Frommann, Jena 1860, directory of the members of the academy, according to the chronological order, p. 248 ( archive.org ).
personal data
SURNAME Vogel, Heinrich August von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bergmann I .; Vogel, August Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German chemist
DATE OF BIRTH July 25, 1778
PLACE OF BIRTH Westerhof
DATE OF DEATH November 24, 1867
Place of death Munich