Heinrich Menzel

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Heinrich Menzel (born May 15, 1895 in Hainitz , † February 17, 1950 in Dresden ) was a German silicate chemist .

Heinrich Menzel was born in Hainitz as the son of the paleobotanist Paul Menzel and his wife Johanna, née Otto. He received his education from 1905 at the Dresden König-Georg-Gymnasium and in 1914 began studying chemistry and physics at the University of Kiel . After the interruption caused by the World War, Menzel continued this from 1917 at the Technical University of Dresden . There he received a Dr.-Ing. In 1923 under Fritz Foerster on the subject of contributions to the physical chemistry of perborates . PhD . Menzel completed his habilitation in 1927. Two years later he received an extraordinary professorship in the special field of inorganic chemistry at the Technical University of Dresden and took over the management of the institute for inorganic and inorganic-technical chemistry. In November 1933 he signed the professors' declaration of Adolf Hitler at German universities and colleges . In 1934 Menzel married the chemist Ilse Schubart. He taught at the TH Dresden until his death.

Menzel's work on the chemical technology of glass and pottery pioneered the development of silicate chemistry and glass technology . He succeeded u. a. the synthesis of the kernite . Menzel also analyzed the usage properties of borate glass . Menzel coined the term "pseudo-tertiary salts" for the phosphates he discovered with excess alkali content.

Publications

  • The theory of combustion , 1924.
  • with Izaak Kolthoff : Die Maßanalyse , 2 vol., 1927.

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SURNAME Menzel, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German silicate chemist
DATE OF BIRTH May 15, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH Hainitz
DATE OF DEATH 17th February 1950
Place of death Dresden