Karl Jellinek
Karl Jellinek (born November 5, 1882 in Vienna , Austria-Hungary ; died June 16, 1971 in Dornach SO ) was an Austrian physical chemist .
Life
Karl Jellinek came from a Jewish family (baptized Protestant). He studied in Vienna and Göttingen and received his doctorate in 1905 with a thesis on reaction kinetics . From 1908 he worked at the TH Danzig . In Danzig he married Melitta Baden, the chemist Hans Helmut Gunter Jellinek is a son. Jellinek became a professor in the Free State of Danzig in 1922 and institute director in 1933. In 1937 he retired prematurely for racist reasons , emigrated to England in 1939 and lived in Switzerland since 1957 . With his work The Mystery of Man , he aimed at a synthesis of natural science and anthroposophy .
Major works
- Textbook of physical chemistry , 5 volumes, 1928–1937 (= 2nd edition; in 2 volumes 1938 f.)
- Understandable elements of wave mechanics , 2 volumes, 1950 f.
- Das Mysterium des Menschen , 5 volumes, 1958–1964, reissued in 2018 by Ch. Möllmann
literature
- Wilhelm Klemm : Jellinek, Karl. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 10, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1974, ISBN 3-428-00191-5 , p. 392 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Jellinek, Karl , in: Werner Röder; Herbert A. Strauss (Ed.): International Biographical Dictionary of Central European Emigrés 1933-1945 . Volume 2.1. Munich: Saur, 1983 ISBN 3-598-10089-2 , p. 567f.
Individual evidence
- ↑ In the NDB , the place of death is given as "Dornach-Arlesheim", although these are two different neighboring communities. According to the obituary in the “Solothurner Zeitung” on June 22, 1971, Jellinek “died in Dornach, where he spent his twilight years ...”.
- ↑ Professor Karl Jellinek (Dornach) has died . In: Solothurner Zeitung . June 22, 1971.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Jellinek, Karl |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Physical chemist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 5, 1882 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 16, 1971 |
| Place of death | Dornach SO |