Hugo Blanck

Hugo Blanck (born November 5, 1836 in Xanten , † March 20, 1893 in Pittsburgh ) was a German-American chemist.

Life

After graduating from high school, Hugo Blanck first studied philosophy at the University of Berlin . Then he went to the University of Bonn . There he became a member of the Corps Saxonia in 1859 . His academic teachers in Bonn included the physicist Heinrich Wilhelm Dove , the geologist and chemist Karl Gustav Bischof , the philosopher Friedrich van Calker , the chemist Hans Heinrich Landolt , the mineralogist and geologist Johann Jacob Nöggerath and the mathematician and physicist Julius Plücker . In 1865 he received a doctorate in chemistry and geology in Bonn. phil. PhD.

After emigrating to America, he first worked for a New York company, but then took a position in Pittsburgh as a chemist with the Standard Oil Company and later with the Spang Chalfant Company. In 1881 he became an independent analytical and consulting chemist with his own office and laboratory, which he ran until his death. At the same time he taught organic chemistry as a professor at the Pittsburgh College of Pharmacy . He was a member of the Pittsburgh Press Club, Engineers Society, and Microscopical Society. He was considered an expert in drinking water analysis . As such, he gained notoriety among the Pittsburgh population through published reports.

Fonts

• De lapidibus quibusdam viridibus (green stones) in Saxo Rhenano quod vocatur Grauwacke repertis , 1865

literature

• Hugo Blanck: Vita scriptoris . In: De lapidibus quibusdam viridibus (green stones) in Saxo Rhenano quod vocatur Grauwacke repertis , 1865, p. 31 ( digitized version )

Web links

• Biography Hugo Blanck on www.pitt.edu (webpage of the University of Pittsburgh)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kösener Corpslist 1960, 13/232.