Hermann Ost
Hermann Ost (born February 17, 1852 in Ellierode , † June 20, 1931 in Hanover ) was a German chemist and as a professor of technical chemistry from 1907 to 1910 rector of the Royal Technical University of Hanover.
Life
Hermann Ost was the nephew of Hermann Kolbe (son of his sister Bertha) and studied chemistry like his uncle . During his studies in 1870 he became a member of the Brunsviga Göttingen fraternity . From the winter semester of 1879, he became a private lecturer in chemistry at the University of Leipzig . At the same time, the publisher Heinrich Vieweg entrusted him in 1880 at the instigation of Hermann Kolbe with the revision of Gorup-Besánez's standard textbook of organic chemistry for teaching at universities, technical schools and for self-study. Around 1884 he moved to the Technical University of Hanover, where he was a lecturerTaught analytical and organic chemistry and worked as an assistant in the chemical laboratory. In 1887 he was appointed professor of technical chemistry there. From 1907 to 1910 he led the university as rector . In 1892 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina .
Fonts (selection)
- Textbook of technical chemistry. Oppenheim, Berlin 1890.
- with Berthold Rassow : Textbook of Technical Chemistry. 3. Edition. Jänecke, Hanover 1898.
- Revised version of Gorup-Besanez : textbook on organic chemistry for teaching at universities, technical schools and for self-study. Volume 2, sixth edition, revised by Dr. Hermann Ost. Vieweg, 1881.
literature
- Friedrich Quincke : Hermann Ost. Obituary. In: Angewandte Chemie. 44 (1931), p. 557 ff.
- Paul Trommsdorff: The faculty of the Technical University of Hanover 1831-1931. Hanover 1931, p. 19.
- Franz Häuser (Ed.): The Leipzig Rectorate Speeches 1871–1933. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2009, ISBN 978-3-11-020919-8 .
- Winfried R. Pötsch among others: Lexicon of important chemists . Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig 1988, p. 330.
Web links
- Literature by and about Hermann Ost in the catalog of the German National Library
- Overview of Hermann Ost's courses at the University of Leipzig (winter semester 1879 to summer semester 1884)
- Member entry of Hermann East at the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
Individual evidence
- ↑ Grete Ronge: Kolbe, Hermann. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 12, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1980, ISBN 3-428-00193-1 , p. 447 ( digitized version ).
- ^ Ernst Elsheimer (ed.): Directory of the old fraternity members according to the status of the winter semester 1927/28. Frankfurt am Main 1928, p. 373.
- ^ Alan J. Rocke: The Quiet Revolution. Hermann Kolbe and the Science of Organic Chemistry. University of California Press, Berkeley 1993, p. 303.
- ^ Rector's speeches in the 19th and 20th centuries - online bibliography , accessed on March 3, 2010.
- ↑ Carl Hermann Knoblauch (Ed.): Leopoldina . Official organ of the Imperial Leopoldino-Carolinian German Academy of Natural Scientists. 28th issue. In commission at Wilh. Engelmann in Leipzig, Halle 1892, p. 198 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
Directors: Karl Karmarsch (1831–1875) | Wilhelm Launhardt (1875–1880)
Rectors: Wilhelm Launhardt (1880–1886) | Karl Dolezalek (1886-1892) | Wilhelm Kohlrausch (1892–1895) | Albert Frank (1895–1898) | Heinrich Köhler (1898–1901) | Ludwig Kiepert (1901–1904) | Georg Barkhausen (1904–1907) | Hermann Ost (1907–1910) | Franz Frese (1910–1911) | Karl Mohrmann (1911–1913) | Robert Otzen (1913–1915) | Carl Heim (1915–1917) | Ludwig Troske (1917–1919) | Conrad Müller (1919–1923) | Ernst Vetterlein (1923–1925) | Fritz Oesterlen (1925–1927) | Friedrich Quincke (1927–1929) | Otto Blum (1929–1931) | Ludwig Klein (1931–1933) | Otto Franzius (1933–1934) | Horst von Sanden (1934–1937) | Hanns Simons (1937–1939) | Alexander Matting (1940-1943) | Helmut Pfannmüller (1943–1945) | Conrad Müller (1945–1947) | Otto Flachsbart (1947–1950) | Walter Großmann (1950–1951) | Hermann Deckert (1951–1952) | Walter Hensen (1952–1954) | Hans Schönfeld (1954–1956) | Johannes Schlums (1956–1957) | Walter Theilacker (1957–1958) | Wilhelm Nicolaisen (1958–1959) | Egon Martyrer (1959–1960) | Wilhelm Wortmann (1960–1961) | Hans-Oskar Wilde (1961–1963) | Albert Vierling (1963–1964) | Walter Renard (1964–1966) | Theodor Kaluza (1966–1968) | Alf Pflüger (1968–1969) | Eduard Pestel (1969–1970) | Hermann Böhrs (1970–1971) | Jürgen Wehrmann (1971–1972) | Lothar Hübl (1973–1974) | Gerhart Laage (1974–1975) | Hinrich Seidel (1975–1977) | Otwin Massing (1977–1978) | Klaus Schäfer (1978–1979)
President: Hinrich Seidel (1979–1997) | Ludwig Schätzl (1997–2005) | Erich Barke (2005–2014) | Volker Epping (since 2015)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ost, Hermann |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German chemist, rector of the Technical University of Hanover (1907–1910) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 17, 1852 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Ellierode |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 20, 1931 |
| Place of death | Hanover |