Helmut Gebelein

Helmut Gebelein (* 1940 ) is a professor emeritus for chemistry didactics at the Justus Liebig University in Giessen . He deals with the philosophy and history of natural science . He became known to a wider public through his work and lectures on alchemy .

Life

He studied chemistry at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main and in Paris at the Institut de Biologie physico-chimique . In 1969 he received his doctorate with a thesis on theoretical chemistry in Frankfurt, after which Gebelein was a postdoc at the University of Tel Aviv . He has been a professor in Gießen since 1972.

Works

• Alchemy. Eugen Diederichs, Munich 1991; 2nd edition ibid 1996; further edition. 2000 ISBN 3-89631-402-5 .
  • Review of the 1st edition: Willem F. Daems, in: Würzburger medicalhistorische Mitteilungen , Volume 11, 1993, pp. 405–407.
• Alchemy compact Hugendubel 2004 ISBN 3-7205-2501-5
• The element of fire in the household and family. In: Trude Ehlert (ed.): Household and family in the Middle Ages and early modern times. Sigmaringen 1991, pp. 137-151
• The magic of the material ISBN 3-424-01062-6
• Karin Figala and Helmut Gebelein Hermetics and Alchemy : Considerations at the End of the 20th Century ISBN 3-935164-03-3
• Johann Rudolph Glauber : alchemical way of thinking, new research results and traces in Kitzingen, with Rainer Werthmann. Edited by Stephanie Nomayo. Kitzingen 2011 ISBN 978-3-924694-25-8

Web links

• Literature by and about Helmut Gebelein in the catalog of the German National Library