John Landauer

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John Landauer (born April 17, 1848 in Braunschweig ; died September 15, 1924 there ) was a German chemist and businessman of the Jewish faith.

Life

John Landauer was a businessman and owner of the J. Landauer cotton and linen factory in Braunschweig.

As a chemist, he became known primarily through his work on soldering tube analysis (1876) and spectral analysis (1896).

John Landauer was a member of the Society for Natural Sciences in Braunschweig and was admitted to the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina on February 2, 1889 ( matriculation no. 2832 ) .

From 1879 to 1921 he was chairman of the Braunschweig Jewish community .

John Landauer was married to Anna Landauer, b. Scheuer (born March 31, 1859 in Düsseldorf, died March 14, 1943 in Braunschweig). Anna Landauer, whose house at Am Gaußberg 1 was expropriated in 1942, had to move to the " Judenhaus " Hagenbrücke 6/7 at the age of 83 . A little later, on March 14, 1943, two days before her deportation to the Theresienstadt concentration camp, she committed suicide. Her daughter Gerda, married Leyser (born June 10, 1891) died in 1943 in the Trawniki forced labor camp .

The family grave of the Landauer couple and their son Kurt (1885–1943) is in the Jewish cemetery on Helmstedter Strasse in Braunschweig.

Fonts

  • The soldering tube analysis. Instructions for qualitative chemical tests by dry means. With free use of William Elderhorst's Manual of Qualitative Blowpipe Analysis . Haering, Braunschweig 1876 digitized
  • with James Taylor and William E. Kay: Blowpipe analysis . Macmillan, London 1879 Digitized
  • Nekrolog Julius Ottmer . In: 4th annual report of the Braunschweig Natural Science Association for the years 1883/84 and 1885/86, Vieweg, Braunschweig 1887, pp. 225–230 PDF
  • The spectral analysis . Vieweg, Braunschweig 1896
  • with John Bishop Tingle: Spectrum analysis . Wiley, New York and Chapman & Hall, London 1898 Digitized

literature

  • Reinhard Bein (Hrsg.): Brunswick personalities of the 20th century. Volume 3, Döringdruck, Braunschweig 2015, ISBN 978-3-925268-53-3 , pp. 150–155.
  • Reinhard Bein: Eternal House - Jewish cemeteries in the city and country of Braunschweig. Döringdruck, Braunschweig 2004, ISBN 3-925268-24-3 .
  • Reinhard Bein: You lived in Braunschweig. Biographical notes on the Jews buried in Braunschweig (1797 to 1983). In: Communications from the Braunschweig City Archives , No. 1, Döring Druck, Braunschweig 2009, ISBN 978-3-925268-30-4 , pp. 452–454.
  • Bert Bilzer , Richard Moderhack (eds.): BRUNSVICENSIA JUDAICA. Memorial book for the Jewish fellow citizens of Braunschweig 1933–1945 , In: Braunschweiger Werkstück , Volume 35, Braunschweig 1966, pp. 122–123.
  • Carl Hermann Knoblauch (Ed.): Leopoldina . Official organ of the Imperial Leopoldino-Carolinian German Academy of Natural Scientists. 25th issue. In commission at Wilh. Engelmann in Leipzig, Halle 1889, p. 22 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Reinhard Bein: Eternal House. Jewish cemeteries in the city and country of Braunschweig. Döring, Braunschweig 2004, p. 223
  2. ↑ Reinhard Bein: John Landauer. In: Reinhard Bein (Ed.): Braunschweiger personalities of the 20th century. Volume 3, p. 154.
  3. ↑ Reinhard Bein: Eternal House. Jewish cemeteries in the city and country of Braunschweig. Döring, Braunschweig 2004, p. 222
  4. ↑ Reinhard Bein: You lived in Braunschweig. Biographical notes on the Jews buried in Braunschweig (1797 to 1983). P. 454.
personal data
SURNAME Landauer, John
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German chemist and businessman
DATE OF BIRTH April 17, 1848
PLACE OF BIRTH Braunschweig
DATE OF DEATH September 15, 1924
Place of death Braunschweig