Carl Karsten

Carl Johann Bernhard Karsten , also Karl Karsten (born November 26, 1782 in Bützow , † August 22, 1853 in Schöneberg ) was a German mineralogist and metallurgist .

family

Carl Karsten (No. 7-2 of the gender census that began with his grandfather ) was the second son of the agricultural scientist Lorenz Karsten . Since August 1, 1808, he was married to Adelaide Rosenstiel (1788–1861), a daughter of Friedrich Philipp Rosenstiel , director of the Royal Porcelain Manufactory (KPM) in Berlin. Adelaide's older sister Henriette became the second wife of the graphic artist and sculptor Johann Gottfried Schadow in 1817 , to whom Karsten later dictated parts of his memories.

Carl and Adelaide Karsten had seven children, including Hermann Karsten (1809–1877), professor of mathematics and mineralogy in Rostock, Gustav Karsten , professor of physics in Kiel, studied the physics of the seas, and Lorenz Karsten , counselor in Berlin. The latter two were also members of the state parliament.

Life

Carl Karsten first studied law in Rostock , later medicine , but then turned to metallurgy and mining . After he was in various positions in Silesia , he was appointed to the Ministry of the Interior in Berlin in 1819 as a secret Oberbergrat .

In the following years Karsten contributed a lot to the development of the metallurgy industry in Germany; in particular the emergence of the zinc industry in Silesia is due to him. He published numerous books on metallurgy and mining.

Karsten and Rudolf von Carnall founded in December 1848 as deputy chairmen with Leopold von Buch (1st chairman), the secretaries Heinrich Ernst Beyrich , Julius Ewald , Heinrich Girard and Gustav Rose , the treasurer Friedrich Tamnau , the archivist Carl Rammelsberg and 40 other participants the constituent meeting of the German Geological Society .

In 1822 he was accepted as a full member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences . In 1826 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina and in 1845 a foreign member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences .

Carl Karsten retired in 1851 and died on August 22, 1853 at the age of 70 in Schöneberg near Berlin. He was buried in the Trinity Cemetery in front of the Potsdamer Tor . The grave was lost when the cemetery was leveled in 1922 at the latest.

Awards

Iron Cross on a White Ribbon (1813)
Order of the Red Eagle 3rd class
1845: Order of the Red Eagle 2nd class with oak leaves

Fonts

Archive for mining and metallurgy 20 vols. Berlin (1818–1831) as editor
Metallurgical journey through part of Bavaria and Austria . Halle (1821), a classic
Investigations into the carbonaceous substances of the mineral kingdom . Berlin (1826)
The ore-bearing limestone mountains of Tarnowitz . Berlin (1826)
Outline of the German mining law doctrine . Berlin (1828)
Archives for mineralogy, geognosy, mining and metallurgy . 26 vols. Berlin (1829–1854), since the 11th vol. Editor together with Heinrich von Dechen
System of metallurgy . 5 vols. Berlin (1831-1832)
Handbook of Metallurgy . 5 vols. Berlin (1841)
Philosophy of chemistry . Berlin (1843)
Textbook of salt science . 2 vols. Berlin (1846). Reprint: Olms, Hildesheim 1999, Vol. 1 ISBN 3-487-10962-X , Vol. 2 ISBN 3-487-10963-8

literature

Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. Bremen 1995, separate section
Wilhelm von Gümbel: Karsten, Karl Johann Bernhard . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 15, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1882, pp. 427-430.
Hans-Henning Walter (Ed.): Carl Johann Bernhard Karsten. 1782 - 1853. Chemist, metallurgist, salinist and Prussian mining official. Drei-Birken-Verlag, Freiberg 2004 ISBN 3-936980-05-5 (conference volume; bibliography pp. 449–468).
Wolfhard Weber: Karsten, Karl Johann Bernhard. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 11, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1977, ISBN 3-428-00192-3 , p. 306 f. ( Digitized version ).

Individual evidence

↑ Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania , Bremen 1995, separate section
↑ Monika Peschken-Eilsberger: The Schadow House and its Inhabitants 1805-2008, series of publications by the Schadow Society, Volume XI, Berlin, 2009, p. 30
^ List of members Leopoldina, Karl Johann Bernhard Karsten
↑ Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 128.
^ Hans-Jürgen Mende : Lexicon of Berlin burial places . Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 , pp. 152–153.

Web links

Literature by and about Carl Karsten in the catalog of the German National Library
Literature about Carl Karsten in the state bibliography MV

personal data
SURNAME	Karsten, Carl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Karsten, Carl Johann Bernhard (full name); Karsten, Karl; Karsten, Karl Bernhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German mineralogist and metallurgist
DATE OF BIRTH	November 26, 1782
PLACE OF BIRTH	Bützow
DATE OF DEATH	August 22, 1853
Place of death	Schöneberg

[1] Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania , Bremen 1995, separate section

[2] Monika Peschken-Eilsberger: The Schadow House and its Inhabitants 1805-2008, series of publications by the Schadow Society, Volume XI, Berlin, 2009, p. 30

[3] List of members Leopoldina, Karl Johann Bernhard Karsten

[4] Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 128.

[5] Hans-Jürgen Mende : Lexicon of Berlin burial places . Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 , pp. 152–153.