Joseph König (chemist)

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Franz Joseph König (born November 15, 1843 in Haltern - Lavesum ; † April 12, 1930 in Münster ) was a German chemist and, among other things, the founder of German food chemistry . He developed numerous analysis methods and created the basis for modern food quality monitoring.

Life

König came from a long-established farming family and went to high school in Recklinghausen and Münster (Abitur 1864). He studied medicine in Munich and then natural sciences with a focus on chemistry, which he continued from 1865 at the Georg-August University of Göttingen . His teachers included Justus von Liebig , Max von Pettenkofer , Friedrich Konrad Beilstein , Rudolph Fittig and Friedrich Wöhler . He was a member of the Corps Verdensia (1866) and Hercynia (1922). In 1867 he was awarded a Dr. phil. is doing his doctorate with the dissertation on ethyl- and di-ethylbenzene . He turned to the applications of chemistry in agriculture and the food industry and in 1868 became the assistant to Theodor Dietrich in the agricultural experimental station for Kurhessen in Morschen , which at that time was the first of its kind with the von experimental station in Leipzig-Möckern.

In 1870 the Agricultural Provincial Association for Westphalia and Lippe commissioned the establishment of the agricultural research station in Münster , which took place in 1871 and was its director until 1911. The research institute was taken over in 1899 by the newly established Chamber of Agriculture of Westphalia and had departments for plant protection, fish farming, fertilization and food controls. In 1892 he became honorary professor for analytical chemistry, food chemistry and hygiene at the Royal Academy in Münster , was allowed to train food chemists from 1895 and in 1899 became full professor for hygiene and food chemistry at what is now the Westphalian Wilhelms University .

He played a key role in establishing food chemistry in Germany and was significantly involved in the first German food law of 1879. The manuals he edited were long standard works.

Honors

Posthumous name foundations

Fonts

  • Chemistry of human food and luxury items 1878 (see food chemistry ).
  • Chemical composition of human food and luxury goods (= chemistry of human food and luxury goods. Vol. 1). Springer, Berlin 1879. 4th improved edition edited by A. Bömer. Springer, Berlin 1903 ( digitized version ).
  • Human food and beverages, their production, composition and quality, together with an outline of nutrition theory (= chemistry of human food and beverages. Vol. 2). Springer, Berlin 1880. 4th improved edition. Springer, Berlin 1904 ( digitized version )

literature

  • Heinz Walter:  King, Joseph. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 12, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1980, ISBN 3-428-00193-1 , p. 343 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Johann Großfeld : Joseph König (Münster i. W.): His life and work; In memory of s. 85th birthday on November 15, 1928 , in association with d. Sons of Friedrich König; Maximilian König edited, Berlin: P. Parey 1928, (series The agricultural experimental stations; vol. 108, supplement vol.)
  • Jutta Grüne: The beginnings of state food control in Germany: the "father of food chemistry" Joseph König (1843 - 1930) With a preface by Hans Jürgen Teuteberg , Stuttgart: Steiner 1994, ISBN 978-3-515-06580-1

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Kösener corps lists 1910, 88 , 26.
  2. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1996, 72 , 205.


personal data
SURNAME King, Joseph
ALTERNATIVE NAMES König, Franz Joseph (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German chemist
DATE OF BIRTH November 15, 1843
PLACE OF BIRTH Holders
DATE OF DEATH April 12, 1930
Place of death Muenster