Heinrich Buff

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Heinrich Buff in Giessen
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Johann Heinrich Buff (born May 23, 1805 in Rödelheim near Frankfurt am Main , † December 24, 1878 in Gießen ) was a German physicist and chemist .

Life

Buff studied chemistry at Georgia Augusta in Göttingen and then joined the Giessen laboratory that had just been founded. In 1827 Buff received his doctorate from Justus Liebig with a thesis on indetic acid and indigh resin . Since he initially intended to pursue a practical career, he first joined the Kestner factory in Thann in Alsace, which is owned by his relatives. Soon, however, he was drawn back to pure science and went to Paris . There he continued his experimental work with Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac , which from then on assumed a different direction. From then on he was fond of physical and chemical boundary problems. These studies led - Buff had returned to Giessen after several years of research - to his habilitation in 1830.

In 1834 Buff accepted a position as a lecturer in physics, mechanical engineering and mechanical technology at the Higher Trade School (Polytechnikum) in Kassel, where he worked with Robert Bunsen . Four years later he was (re-) appointed as full professor of physics at the University of Gießen as the successor to Georg Gottlieb Schmidt, who died in 1837 . From 1847 Buff began to publish the annual reports on the progress of chemistry together with Justus Liebig . Together with his colleagues Friedrich Zamminer (1817-1858) and Hermann Kopp (as editor of the textbook by Thomas Graham and Friedrich Julius Otto ) Buff published the textbook of physical and theoretical chemistry in 1857 , which for the first time identified the boundary areas between physics and chemistry as independent subjects . In 1842 he was elected a member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and in 1859 a foreign member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences .

Grave of Heinrich Buff and his wife Johanna in the old cemetery in Gießen

Johann Heinrich Buff died on December 24th, 1878 in Giessen at the age of 73. His grave is in the old cemetery .

family

Buff was the son of the Dutch captain Wilhelm Karl Ludwig Buff and his wife Elisabeth Charlotte Lamprecht. His aunt was Charlotte Buff , married Kestner. In 1833 Buff married Johanette Sophie Hofmann (1810-1848) (sister of the chemist August Wilhelm von Hofmann ), with whom he had six children. When she died in 1848, he married Johanna Moldenhauer in the same year (* March 28, 1827, † February 10, 1906). She was Hofmann's sister-in-law, and Justus von Liebig was married to her sister. From this second marriage there were five more children. His children include:

  • Adolf (born September 1, 1838; † August 30, 1901), archivist of the city of Augsburg, prince educator at the English court ⚭ NN
  • Heinrich (1844–1902), chemist and industrialist
  • Meta Johanna († 1929) ⚭ Hermann von Jhering (1850–1930), zoologist
  • Helene ⚭ Bernhard Stade (1848–1906), professor in Giessen

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Individual evidence

  1. Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 52.
  2. Member entry of Heinrich Buff (with picture) at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences , accessed on February 9, 2016.