Karl Albert Max Balling

Karl Albert Max Balling (born May 14, 1835 in Prague , † April 21, 1896 in Příbram ) was an Austrian chemist and metallurgical man . From 1875 to 1896 he was professor of chemistry, tasting and metallurgy at the Příbram Mining Academy in Bohemia.

Life

As a graduate of the Polytechnic in Prague, Karl Albert Max Balling joined the Austrian mining service in 1858 and in 1860 became an assistant for metallurgy at the Bergakademie in Pribram. In 1875, as a foreman and mining engineer in Brixlegg in Tyrol, he was appointed professor of chemistry, testing and metallurgy at the Bergakademie in Pribram in Bohemia, became the imperial upper mountain ridge and taught the extraction and processing of metals there for twenty years. Karl Albert Max Balling is a son of the chemist Karl Josef Napoleon Balling , professor and rector of the Polytechnic in Prague and a nephew of the chemist Friedrich Balling , central director of the mining works owned by the Princely House of Schwarzenberg.

Act

Research by Karl Albert Max Balling on the extraction of metals, published in textbooks, is one of the standard works in the field of metallurgy.

Fonts (selection)

• The iron industry of Bohemia. Historically, statistically and with special consideration of the current operation. In: Berg- und Hüttenmännisches Jahrbuch der k. Hungarian Schemnitz Mining Academy and the Imperial and Royal Bergakademien Leoben and Přibram. Vol. 17, 1867 (1868), pp. 211-317 .
• The trial of iron and fuel. For use by practical smelters as well as for self-teaching with regard to the needs of today's smelting technology. Calve, Prague 1868, ( digitized version ).
• The horizontal coking furnace according to the Ringel system. In: Oesterreichische Zeitschrift für Berg- und Hüttenwesen . Vol. 24, No. 32, 1876, pp. 319-320 .
• The trial customer. Instructions for carrying out docimastic examinations of mountain and metallurgical products. Vieweg, Braunschweig 1879, ( digitized version ).
• Compendium of Metallurgical Chemistry. Propaedeutics for the study of metallurgy. Strauss, Bonn 1882, ( digitized version ).
• Metallurgy. Extraction of metals and representation of their connections on the ironworks. Springer, Berlin 1885, ( digitized version ).
• Progress in probation. (Including the years 1879–1886). Springer, Berlin 1887, ( digitized version ).
• Electrometallurgy floor plan. Enke, Stuttgart 1888.

literature

• Johann Christian Poggendorf: Biographical-literary concise dictionary for the history of the exact sciences 3; 4; 5 (1863 ff.)
• Biographisches Jahrbuch und Deutscher Nekrolog Volume 1, 1896/97
• Biographical Lexicon for the History of the Bohemian Lands, Volume 1 (A – H), published on behalf of the Collegium Carolinum by Heribert Sturm , Oldenbourg Verlag Munich Vienna 1979, page 44.