Karl Ludwig Reimann

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Karl Ludwig Reimann (born January 1, 1804 in Buttstädt or January 2, 1804 in Weimar , † April 15, 1872 in Pforzheim ) was a German chemist .

Life

Reimann was a student of JB Trommsdorf in the Erfurt Schwanen pharmacy. and became assistant to his father-in-law Philipp Lorenz Geiger (1785–1836). In 1825 he worked with Dietrich Georg von Kieser . and in 1826 he wrote his Dissertatio Inauguralis Medico-Chirurgica De hydrocele in Jena . In 1828, together with the physician Christian Wilhelm Posselt, he isolated the nicotine from the tobacco leaves and tested its effects on animals. Geiger recommended him to the Pforzheim factory owner Johann Adam Benckiser as a chemist, where Reimann became a partner in 1833. In 1858 he founded a second factory in Ludwigshafen am Rhein and developed a process for the industrial production of tartaric acid .

One of his successors was his grandson Albert Reimann senior. (August 21, 1868 - July 27, 1954).

literature

  • Ulrike Thomas: Pharmacy in the field of tension of reorientation: Philipp Lorenz Geiger (1785-1836), life, work and work: a biography ; Deutscher Apotheker Verlag, 1985
  • F. Eiden: On the history of tobacco alkaloids ; 1976
  • Kurt Oberdorffer: Ludwigshafen chemist; 2 (Ludwig Reimann, Albert Reimann senior, Heinrich Caro , Carl Grünzweig , Rudolf Knietsch , Fritz Winkler ), Econ Verlag, 1960
  • Emil Aeckerle: Ludwig Reimann and Dr. Albert Reimann Sr. - Two chemists from 5 generations of the Benckiser company ; In Palatinate. Heimatblätter , year 8

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Rheinpfalz, Ludwigshafen, Schifferstadt. 24, No. 50 of February 28, 1968
  2. ↑ Schwan pharmacy, Erfurt: history
  3. ↑ Joint union catalog: Ordinis medici in universitate litterarum Ienensi HT decanus
  4. ↑ Joint union catalog: Dissertatio Inauguralis Medico-Chirurgica De hydrocele

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personal data
SURNAME Reimann, Karl Ludwig
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Reimann, Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German chemist
DATE OF BIRTH January 2, 1804
PLACE OF BIRTH Weimar
DATE OF DEATH April 15, 1872
Place of death Pforzheim