Karl Stammer

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Karl Stammer (born February 29, 1828 in Luxembourg ; † July 25, 1893 in Rolandseck ) was a chemist from the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg who had lived and worked in Germany since his studies.

Life

Apparatus for the color determination of beet sugar (in thin juice, thick juice, filling mass and molasses) according to Dr. Stammer, 1887, Sugar Museum Berlin

Karl Stammer was the son of Heinrich Stammer (1785-1859), professor at the Athenaeum Luxembourg . From 1846 Karl Stammer studied natural sciences at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn , the Ludwigs-Universität Gießen and the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Berlin . 1850 doctorate he in Berlin with a dissertation on chemical reduction by carbon oxide to Dr. phil.

In Gießen, where Stammer was enrolled in the winter semester of 1848/49, he attended lectures by Justus Liebig . He is one of the two Luxembourg Liebig students, the other was the pharmacist and high school professor Jos Namur .

From 1857 Stammer was a teacher at the provincial trade school in Münster . Later he ran a sugar factory in Koberwitz near Breslau in Silesia ; it is probably the factory of Carl vom Rath († 1904).

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Stammer published numerous individual studies on topics such as nitrogen lead oxide, the lime content of bone char, luminosity of wood gas , luminous gas from peat , chemistry and technology of sugar. He was the author or co-author of a number of monographs and publisher of magazines on sugar production, including: Annual report on the research and progress in the total area of ​​sugar production , pocket calendar for sugar manufacturers and the journal of the Association for the Beet Sugar Industry of the German Reich .

Fonts

  • De oxidi carbonici vi reducendi . Schade, Berlin 1850. (Inaugural dissertation, 39 pages)
  • Guide to practical work in the chemical laboratory . Friedrich Vieweg & Son, Braunschweig 1854.
  • Chemical laboratory. Instructions for teaching yourself chemistry. J. Ricker, Giessen 1856.
  • Tables of chemical schemes for use in teaching inorganic chemistry in 43 blackboards. Brunswick 1857.
  • Physics textbook. 2 volumes, M. Schauenburg, Lahr 1858 and 1859.
  • Traité complet théorique et pratique de la fabrication du sucre. Guide you fabricant. Lacroix, Paris 1871.
  • Textbook of sugar manufacturing. Vieweg, Braunschweig 1874.
  • Signpost in the distillery. Vieweg, Braunschweig 1876.
  • Guide to sugar production, preferably for use by factory officials, technicians, master builders, etc. Vieweg, Braunschweig 1876.
  • Brandy distillery and its secondary branches. A textbook on alcohol, brandy, liqueur and pressed yeast production. Vieweg, Braunschweig 1876.
  • Collection of chemical arithmetic problems with answers and solutions. 2 volumes, Braunschweig 1878.
  • Traité complet théorique et pratique de la fabrication de la bière et du malt.Bruxelles 1879. (together with Jules Cartuyvels)
  • Chemical Problems. (Translated from the second German edition with explanations and answers by WS Hoskinson) P. Blakiston, Son & Co., Philadelphia 1885.
  • Textbook of sugar manufacturing. 2nd edition, 2 text volumes and 1 table volume, Friedrich Vieweg, Braunschweig 1887.
  • The steam in the sugar factory. 2 volumes, Rathke, Magdeburg 1891 and 1894. (ed. From the estate)

literature

  • Leopoldina, official organ of the Imperial Leopoldino-Carolinische Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher , 35th year 1893, issue 29, p. 160 (short obituary for Stammer without mentioning the author in the section Biographical Communications ). (as a digital copy on archive.org )
  • M. Blum: Bibliography luxembourgeoise ou catalog raisonné de tous les ouvrages ou travaux littéraires publiés par des Luxembourgeois ou dans le Grand-Duché actuel de Luxembourg. Première partie: Les auteurs connus. Nouvelle édition, complétée, avec introduction et index analytique, par Carlo Hury. o. O. 1902–1932 / as reprint : Kraus International Publications, Munich 1981.
  • JS Fruton: The Liebig research group. A reappraisal. (= Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society , Vol. 132.) 1988, pp. 1-66.
  • Ernst Gurlt: Medicinisch-Naturwissenschaftlicher Nekrolog of the year 1893. In: Virchow's archive for pathological anatomy and physiology for clinical medicine , Volume 135 (1894), Issue 3, Pages 537-574.
  • Franz Kössler: Register for the matriculation and inscription books of the University of Giessen WS 1807/08 - WS 1850. In: Reports and works from the University Library Giessen , Volume 25 (1976), No. I-IV, Pages 1–221 (?).
  • Jos A. Massard: The Luxemburg student of Liebig Joseph Namur, pharmacist and professor in Echternach. In: Festschrëft 150 Joër Iechternacher Kolléisch (1841-1991). Impr. St Paul, Luxembourg 1992, pages 481-558.
  • MW Rossiter: The emergence of agricultural science. Justus Liebig and the Americans. Yale University Press, New Haven 1975.
  • Georg Schwedt: Liebig and his students. The new school of chemistry. Springer, Heidelberg et al. 2002, ISBN 978-3-642-62783-5 .
  • Armin Wankmüller: Foreign students of pharmacy and chemistry at Liebig in Gießen. In: Deutsche Apotheker-Zeitung , Volume 107 (1967), No. 14, pages 463-467.
  • Armin Wankmüller: Students of pharmacy and chemistry at the University of Giessen from 1800 to 1852. In: Contributions to Württemberg pharmacy history , Volume 13 (1980-1982), pages 54-64, 95-96, 121-128, 148-160.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Date and place of death according to Leopoldina 1893 and Ernst Gurlt 1894
  2. ↑ Therefrom , occasionally different information about the date and place of death on July 20, 1893 in Düsseldorf in:
    G. Mannes, R. Muller: "And in fact you help us as a faithful defender of the country". Charles-Gérard Eyschen's letters to Karl Stedmann (1826–1855). In: Hémecht , 61 (1), Luxemburg 2009, pp. 5–90, here p. 85 (in footnote, without further indication of the source)
  3. ↑ Massard 1992 , p. 486 (Corrigendum: 2nd col., 7th line: read Münster instead of Munich ); Leopoldina 1893 ; Gurlt 1894 .
  4. ^ Pierre Grégoire : Pedagogue Profiles. St. Paulus Printing Works, Luxembourg 1966, pp. 77–199.
  5. ↑ NN: Biographical Communications. Leopoldina, Vienna 1893, issue 29, page 160.
  6. ↑ Wankmüller 1967; Rossiter 1975, p. 89; Kössler 1976, p. 186; Wankmüller, 1981-1982, p. 150, no. 624; Fruton 1988, p. 57.
  7. ↑ Massard 1992
  8. ↑ Schwedt 2002, p. 276.
  9. ↑ Gurlt 1894, p. 558
  10. ^ Bibliothèque nationale, Luxembourg. Fund ancien luxembourgeois. Cote LA 26104
personal data
SURNAME Stammer, Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Stammer, Carl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Luxembourg chemist
DATE OF BIRTH February 29, 1828
PLACE OF BIRTH Luxembourg
DATE OF DEATH July 25, 1893
Place of death Rolandseck