Hermann Wedding

Hermann Wedding (born March 9, 1834 in Berlin ; † May 6, 1908 in Düsseldorf ) was a German metallurgist and professor of metallurgy at the Royal Mining Academy and the Royal Technical University of Berlin.

Life

Wedding, son of the director of the Staatsdruckerei Johann Wilhelm Wedding , attended the high school at the gray monastery in Berlin until 1853. After gaining practical experience at the Royal Ironworks in Malapane , Wedding studied at the Freiberg and Berlin Bergakademie . During his studies, in August and September 1858, he went on a study trip to mines and companies in the coal and steel industry in Saarland and the Ruhr area. In 1859 Wedding received his doctorate with a thesis on the lava of Vesuvius . As a trainee lawyer for the Prussian mining administration, he visited iron works and steel works in Belgium and Great Britain in 1860 and 1862 - at state expense - as well as the 1862 World Exhibition in London. Wedding made notes of his travels in the form of travel diaries, which are now part of the holdings of the Iron Library .

In 1863, Hermann Wedding was initially appointed to represent the Berlin Bergakademie, and in 1867 he was appointed professor of iron and steel engineering at the Berlin Trade Academy, which in 1879 was merged with the Bauakademie to form the Royal Technical University . In addition to Adolf Martens , Hermann Wedding was one of the few metallurgists who, even before 1900, relied on the methods of microscopic metallography to examine iron and steel products . This is documented in several articles in the journal Stahl und Eisen from the 1880s. Wedding was involved as the editor of the Handbook of Metallurgy . a. the ground plan of the iron and steel industry .

Honors and memberships

• Member of the Imperial Patent Office
• Honorary member of the academic hut association
• Honorary member of the Association of German Ironworkers
• Honorary member of the American Institute of Mining Engineers
• Holder of the golden Bessermer medal
• Holder of the golden medal of the association for the promotion of industry

Works (selection)

• About the Freiberg huts ... , 1856–1857, digitized on e-codices.
• Journey through Thuringia, Bavaria, Saarbrücken, Lorraine, Rhine, Westphalia , 1858, digitized on e-codices.
• Metallurgical travel diary through Germany, Belgium and England , 1860–1862, digitized on e-codices.
• The presentation of forgeable iron in a practical and theoretical relationship , Vieweg, Braunschweig, 1875 and 1884.
• Outline of the Metallurgy , Ernst, Berlin, 2nd edition. 1880.
• Present-day tasks in the field of metallurgy , Vieweg, Braunschweig, 1888.
• Grundriß der Eisenhüttenkunde , Ernst, Berlin, 4th ed. 1901.
• The iron and steel industry explained in eight lectures , Teubner, Leipzig, 2nd ed. 1904.
• The iron and steel industry explained in eight lectures , Teubner, Leipzig, 3rd edition 1908, digitized version of the University and State Library in Düsseldorf.

literature

• NN: Hermann Wedding †. In: Chemiker-Zeitung 32.1908, p. 473. [Obituary]
• Bernd Lychatz / Ralf-Peter Bösler (eds.): The Freiberg ironworks. A historical overview with biographical sketches. Freiberg 2014, pp. 34, 38, 72, 73, 76, 79, 82