Jost Weyer

Jost Weyer (born May 21, 1936 in Hamburg ) is a German chemical historian and chemist .

Life

Weyer studied chemistry and received his doctorate in 1967 on “Selective catalytic oxidation of 1,6-anhydro-β- D- hexopyranoses” with Hans Paulsen and Kurt Heyns in Hamburg. Then he turned to chemistry history; from 1970 he was first Scientific Councilor , then Senior Councilor and Professor at the Institute for the History of Natural Sciences at the University of Hamburg . In 1981 he completed his habilitation in Hamburg. In 1999 he retired.

Weyer is mainly concerned with the history of alchemy . For a time he was chairman of the section "History of Chemistry" of the Society of German Chemists .

Academic offices

• 1973–1974 Managing Director (provisional) of the Institute for the History of Natural Sciences at the University of Hamburg
• 1989–1992 Managing Director of the Institute for the History of Natural Sciences at the University of Hamburg

Publications (selection)

• New concepts of chemical historiography in the 19th century: Trommsdorff, Hoefer and Kopp. In: Rete , Volume 1, Issue 1, 1971, pp. 33-50 and 44-50.
• Principles and methods of the chemical historian , in: Chemistry in our time , Volume 6, Issue 6, December 1972, pp. 185-190.
• Newer ways of interpreting alchemy , in: Chemistry in our time, Volume 7, Issue 6, December 1973, pp. 177-181 (about interpretations of alchemy by Arthur John Hopkins (1864-1939), Carl Gustav Jung and Mircea Eliade )
• Chemical historiography from Wiegleb (1790) to Partington (1970): a study of their methods, principles, etc. Goals , Hildesheim, Gerstenberg 1974, (series: arbor scientiarum; Vol. 3), ISBN 3-8067-0443-0 .
• The portrait: Joseph Achille Le Bel 1847–1930 , in: Chemistry in Our Time, Volume 8, Issue 5, October 1974, pp. 143–147.
• The development of chemistry into a science between 1540 and 1740. In: Reports on the history of science , Volume 1, 1978, No. 1/2, pp. 113-121.
• as ed. with Karl Garbers : Source history reading book on the chemistry and alchemy of the Arabs in the Middle Ages. Hamburg 1980 (= source history reading books on the natural sciences of the Arabs in the Middle Ages , 1).
• Alchemy in the Latin Middle Ages. An overview , in: Chemistry in Our Time, Volume 23, Issue 1, February 1989, pp. 16-23.
• Alchemy at a renaissance court. Count Wolfgang II of Hohenlohe (1546–1610) and Weikersheim Castle , in: Chemistry in our time, Volume 26, Issue 5, October 1992, pp. 241–249.
• Count Wolfgang II of Hohenlohe and alchemy. Alchemical studies in Weickersheim Castle 1587–1610. Sigmaringen 1992 (= research from Württembergisch Franken , 39).
• History of Chemistry, 2 volumes Springer Heidelberg 2018.
  • Volume 1 - Antiquity, Middle Ages, 16th to 18th centuries ISBN 978-3-662-55798-3
  • Volume 2 - 19th and 20th centuries ISBN 978-3-662-55802-7

Web links

• Literature by and about Jost Weyer in the catalog of the German National Library
• Website about Weyer at the University of Hamburg with a list of publications