Karl Josef Napoleon Balling

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Karl Josef Napoleon Balling (also Karel or Carl Joseph Napoleon Balling ) (born April 21, 1805 in Gabrielahütten , Northern Bohemia, †  March 17, 1868 in Prague ) was a Bohemian chemist and specialist in metallurgy. He was rector of the Polytechnic in Prague from 1866 to 1868 .

Life

Karl Balling was the third child of Michael and Anne Balling. As a graduate of the high school in Pilsen , Karl Josef Napoleon Balling studied chemistry at the Polytechnic in Prague from 1820 to 1823 and then continued his studies at the Charles University in Prague with an internship in the Zbirow ironworks near Pilsen in Bohemia under his father. Karl Josef Napoleon Balling was assistant for chemistry at the Polytechnic in Prague and in 1833 after the death of Prof. Steinmann his successor at the chair for chemistry there with lectures on sugar production, fermentation chemistry and metallurgy. On July 16, 1835 he was appointed professor for general chemistry and technical chemistry. In 1866 he became rector of the Polytechnic in Prague.

family tree

Balling's son Karl Albert Max Balling (1835-1896) was a professor of chemistry, testing and metallurgy at the Příbram mining academy in Bohemia.

Karl Josef Napoleon Balling's older brother Friedrich Balling (1803-1859) was the central director of iron processing industries in Krumlov. Her father Michael Balling (1776–1848) came from Franconia . In turn, he was the son of Johann Kaspar Balling, born on August 12, 1737 in Würzburg , died on September 17, 1805 as an engineer and surveyor in Würzburg. He was the son of the master carpenter and restaurateur Johann Kaspar Balling, born on August 12, 1705 in Selz an der Saale, died on December 8, 1768 in Würzburg, who gave Johann Christoph Balling, (* 1680, † August 4, 1748 in Selz ) to father.

Act

Balling was one of the founders of scientific fermentation chemistry and promoted the development of the sugar industry in Bohemia. In 1843 he invented the Balling saccharimeter named after him , a density spindle for determining the concentration of aqueous sugar solutions. He also introduced this saccharimeter to the brewing industry and also founded the so-called attenuation theory or saccharometric beer test in 1843 , which establishes a mathematical relationship between the alcohol content, the actual extract content and the concentration of the original wort of the beer. From 1849 to 1861 he was the managing director of the trade cooperative in Prague, member of the committee of the kk patriotic-economic society, member of the statistical trade commission in Bohemia and the medical commission of the Bohemian Lieutenancy. He was a promoter of commercial and agricultural exhibitions and head of the Austro-Hungarian department at the world exhibitions in London in 1851 and in Paris in 1855 .

In 1854 he received the Knight's Cross of the Franz Joseph Order , awards for science and art, and was a corresponding member of the Imperial Academy of Sciences in Vienna, holder of the Imperial and Royal Austrian large gold medal for science and arts and a member of the royal. Bohemian Society of Sciences in Prague.

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SURNAME Balling, Karl Josef Napoleon
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Balling, Carl Joseph Napoleon; Balling, Karel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bohemian chemist and mining specialist
DATE OF BIRTH April 21, 1805
PLACE OF BIRTH Gabriela huts near Rothenhaus, Komotau district in western Bohemia
DATE OF DEATH March 17, 1868
Place of death Prague