Hermann Raaf

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Hermann Raaf (born March 23, 1914 in Nagold ; † after 1993) was a German chemist and chemistry teacher.

Raaf went to the Realgymnasium in Freudenstadt and studied chemistry, biology and geography for teaching in Tübingen, Königsberg, Göttingen and the TH Stuttgart . He received his doctorate in 1941 at the Technical University of Stuttgart at the Botanical Institute (contributions to the knowledge of fat and protein synthesis in Endomyces vernalis and some other microorganisms) He was a professor at the Reutlingen University of Education and from 1975 honorary professor at the University of Tübingen and lived in Reutlingen .

He is the author of many popular science books on chemistry, often as a reworker of Hermann Römpp's books , especially everyday chemistry , a bestseller.

He was married to Ingeborg Eichinger and had three daughters.

In 1984 he was the first to receive the Heinrich Roessler Prize for Chemistry Didactics.

Fonts

  • with Hermann Römpp: Chemistry of Everyday Life: From Alcohol to Matchstick, 26th edition, Stuttgart: Franckh 1985
  • Chemistry very simple: over 150 experiments with everyday things and substances, Kosmos-Bücher, Franckh, 2nd edition 1984
  • with Martin Radau: Basic chemical internship, 2 volumes, Aulis-Verlag 1979
  • with Hermann Römpp: Organic chemistry in the test glass: an introduction through many safe experiments with simple means, 14th edition, Franckh 1979
  • with Hermann Römpp: Chemical experiments with simple means: safe experiments from inorganic chemistry, dtv 1971, 1977
  • with Hermann Römpp: Chemical experiments that succeed: inorganic chemistry, Franckh, 16th edition 1971

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Date of birth Kosmos, Volume 69, 1973, p. 432, and entry in Degener, Habel, Wer ist Wer, Schmidt Rönhild 1993
  2. ↑ Published in Arch. Mikrobiol., Volume 12, 1941, p. 131
  3. ↑ From the 20th edition in 1967, Raaf took over the editing. He was friends with Römpp, who died in 1964, and exchanged ideas for over 15 years, as he wrote in the foreword
  4. ↑ Further editions published by Herder Verlag and a licensed edition What contains what? 1995 at Weltbild Verlag
personal data
SURNAME Raaf, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German chemist
DATE OF BIRTH March 23, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH Nagold
DATE OF DEATH after 1993