Julius Upmann

Julius Upmann

Julius Upmann (born August 16, 1838 in Birkenfeld (Nahe) , † January 9, 1900 in Wiesbaden ) was a German chemist and explosives expert.

Life

As the son of a doctor Upmann visited Kreuznach the school to the city walls . At his father's request, he first studied law at the University of Leipzig in 1858/59 . With Ludwig Gundlach he was active in the Corps Lusatia Leipzig . He continued his studies at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg and finished it in the winter semester 1864/65 at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin with the faculty examination . He was an auscultator in the Grand Duchy of Oldenburg for a short time , but gave up his legal career and, following his real inclination, studied chemistry from 1867 to 1871 at the Georg August University of Göttingen . With a doctoral thesis with Hans Huebner he received his doctorate there in 1870. As an assistant at the Chemical Laboratory in Leipzig, he dealt in particular with explosives . In 1874 he published a fundamental paper on the history, materials and production methods of gunpowder , its chemical and physical properties and the various testing methods . He became director of a chemical factory in Wiesbaden and founded his own chemical factory in Düsseldorf in 1880. Due to a serious illness, he had to give up the factory in 1892. He spent his old age in Wiesbaden. He died at the age of 61.

Works

• About thihydrobenzoic acid and dithiobenzoic acid. University publication, Göttingen 1870.
• The gunpowder. History, manufacture, properties and samples , Vieweg Verlag, Braunschweig 1874, reprints 2013 and 2015.
• with Ernst von Meyer : Traité sur la poudre, les corps explosifs et la pyrotechnic . 1878.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 3/449 (wrong there as "Dr. iur." And "Assessor aD")
2. ↑ Dissertation: About thihydrobenzoic acid and dithiobenzoic acid .
3. ^ Curriculum vitae in the personnel records of the Corps Lusatia Leipzig