Karl Moritz Kersten

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Karl Moritz Kersten (born July 19, 1803 in Zöblitz , † November 10, 1850 in Colditz ) was a German chemist and university professor.

Life

Karl Moritz Kersten studied chemistry and related sciences at the Bergakademie Freiberg , with Friedrich Stromeyer at the University of Göttingen and with Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac and Pierre Berthier in Paris . In 1821 he became a member of the Corps Montania Freiberg .

After his return to Freiberg in 1829, he was appointed chief smelter in 1830 and professor for analytical and practical chemistry at the Bergakademie in 1836. From 1829 he held the second and from 1837 the first course in analytical chemistry. In 1842 he became the acting successor of Wilhelm August Lampadius , but had to interrupt his teaching activities, which had already been impaired by a mental disorder, from 1843 to 1846 before he was finally released as mentally ill in 1847 and died in the lunatic asylum of Colditz Castle in 1850 .

Kersten's numerous publications are a testament to his intensive and well-founded work in the field of analytical chemistry, mineralogy and geology. In 1830 he discovered selenium for the first time in the pitchblende of the magnesium-carbonate-pitchblende formation (mgu formation) in the Schneeberg district . In 1844 he was the first to describe Chapmanite from the New Hope God Mine in Bräunsdorf (Oberschöna) , which he characterized as a "hypochlorite-like mineral".

Fonts

  • Chemical investigation of the bismuth cobalt ore , 1826
  • New occurrence of selenium , 1826
  • Bromine in the Soole von Werl , 1827
  • Cadmium in the Freiberg Blende , 1827
  • White iron sinter from Freiberg , 1828
  • Arsenic gloss from Marienberg , 1828
  • Investigation of the yellow, zinc-containing broken furnace, which forms during the rough work in the Freiberg huts , 1829
  • About the Transylvanian and Hungarian Smelting Trials , 1829
  • Brown lead iron , 1831
  • Zinc salt from Monte Pont , 1832
  • Gelatinous and more recent products of the mineral kingdom , 1832
  • Experiments and experiences with the introduction of marl soles during the abortion process on the Freiberg huts , 1832
  • On the uncertainty of the ordinary silver test by means of the cupellation , 1832
  • Talc stone marrow, Collyrit, Alumocalcit , Fettbol , 1832
  • About the nourishing components of the bones. After d'Arcet , 1832
  • Decomposition of several Saxon minerals , 1832
  • The composition of the lye from the amalgamation of the rough stone , 1833
  • Disassembly of the bismuth diaphragm , 1833
  • Description of the gold, silver, lead and copper extraction on the Hungarian smelters , 1834
  • On the effects of raw and burnt clay in agriculture , 1834
  • Translation into German by: Berthier, Handbuch der Metallurgisch-Analytischen Chemie (2 volumes), 1835
  • Artificial formation of the feldspar , 1835
  • About the occurrence of lustrous coal on an iron stone corridor of the Eibenstock granite mountains , 1834
  • About a leather-like substance formed in meadows , 1839
  • New occurrence of selenium , 1839
  • Occurrence of lanthanum , 1839
  • Investigation of the Monazith , 1839
  • Examination of the Miloshin , 1839
  • Examination of the Volkhonskoite , 1839
  • Investigation of several Saxon metallurgical products , 1839
  • About the formation of blue titanium oxide and about the blue color of some of the court slags , 1840
  • About the lead-containing aragonite from Tarnowitz , 1840
  • Artificial red copper ore , 1840
  • Cause of the blue color of some natural and art products , 1840
  • Newly created natural silicate and silicic acid content of mine water , 1841
  • Occurrence of vanadium , 1841
  • A human skull transformed into brown iron stone and bitumen , 1841
  • Hydraulic limestone , 1842
  • Crystalline precipitation from a glass mass , 1843
  • Vanadic Acid Content of Pechuran , 1843
  • Crystalline metallurgical product , 1842
  • Strange iron blast furnace product and new deposits of vanadium , 1843
  • Feldspar porphyry from Freiberg , 1843
  • Mercury-containing pale ore from Toscana , 1843
  • About the chemical composition of some Saxon minerals and mountain species. Hypochlorite-like mineral from Bräunsdorf , 1844 (Chapmanite)
  • Producte of the voluntary decomposition of cobalt and nickel ores , 1844
  • Concretions in the fruit slate , 1844
  • Saxon Minerals , 1844
  • Conversion of lead triol into galena , 1844
  • Peruvian and African guano , 1845
  • Phosphoric acid in plutonic rocks , 1845
  • Mineral water from the Zwickau coal formation , 1845
  • Asphalt from Dalmatia , 1845
  • The Cross and Ferdinand's Fountain in Marienbad , 1845
  • Forest spring in Marienbad , 1846
  • Venetian aventurine , 1847

literature

  • Rudolf Werner Soukup, Andreas Schober: A library as eloquent witness of a comprehensive change in the scientific worldview - Part I: The authors of the works in the Robert Wilhelm Bunsen library in short biographies , 2010 ( digitized version )
  • Festschrift for the centenary of the Königl. Saxon. Bergakademie zu Freiberg, on July 30, 1866 , 1966, pp. 29–32 ( digitized version )
  • Hartmut Schleiff, Roland Volkmer, Herbert Kaden : Catalogus Professorum Fribergensis: Professors and teachers at the TU Bergakademie Freiberg 1765 to 2015. Freiberg, 2015, ISBN 978-3-86012-492-5 , p. 48

Web links

Wikisource: Carl Moritz Kersten  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Max Blau, Gottfried Schilling: Chronicle of Saxo-Montania zu Freiberg and Dresden in Aachen , Part 1: Corps Montania Freiberg / Saxony 1798–1935 , 1977, p. 46
personal data
SURNAME Kersten, Karl Moritz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kersten, Carl Moritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German chemist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH July 19, 1803
PLACE OF BIRTH Zöblitz
DATE OF DEATH November 10, 1850
Place of death Colditz