Konrad Heinrich Stünkel

Konrad Heinrich Stünkel (born January 6, 1763 in Stöcken , Neustadt am Rübenberge office ; † October 7, 1826 in Braunschweig ) was an upper mountain ridge in Brunswick .

In 1778 Stünkel became a cadet in the Hanoverian artillery . Here he was taught in the Hanoverian cadet school, continued his education in mathematics and physics, and taught himself in several prestigious houses. As a non-commissioned officer, he was commissioned to learn the process of forging artillery bullets for the heavy artillery in Prussia. In 1789 he was employed as an assistant in an ironworks in Rothenhütte near Elbingerode and in 1794 toured several mining and steel works in Saxony, Silesia and Austria. Later, under the title of Hüttenriders, he was given a supervisory role over the Hanoverian ironworks in the Harz Mountains. Stünkel turned down an offer from Duke Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand , who had offered him a 1000 thalers job as a mountain ridge in Blankenburg . On February 1, 1814, he accepted an even more advantageous offer and was appointed to the ducal chamber of Braunschweig as Oberbergrat under Minister of State Gebhard von der Schulenburg-Wolfsburg .

Works

He wrote many of his writings and essays without giving his name, but he played a large part in the depiction of the Harz mines and ironworks published by his brother Johann Georg in 1803.

• Johann Georg Stünkel: Description of the iron mines and ironworks on the Harz: for use by travelers and for viewing by non-traveling friends of mining and metallurgy . Heinrich Dieterich, Göttingen 1803, OCLC 838524831 .
• Johann Georg Ludolf Blumhof: on the rights Construction of the corrugated ridges or feet into a uniform fan, particularly blast furnaces and bey Frischheerden: etc. designed to clean man, Elvius . With additions and own observations accompanied by C [onrad] H [Heinrich] Stünkel, Königl. Great Britain. and Churfürstl. Braunschw. Lüneb. Eisenhüttenreiter zu Clausthal. Crusius, Leipzig 1800, urn : nbn: de: gbv: 3: 1-461138 .

literature

• Ewa Warmuth: Stünkel, Konrad Heinrich. In: Horst-Rüdiger Jarck , Günter Scheel (ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon - 19th and 20th centuries . Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 1996, ISBN 3-7752-5838-8 , p. 600 .
• General Repertory of Criticism or a complete list of all works that have appeared since 1826 and have been evaluated in Germany's critical journals ... Hayn, 1827, p. 342 ( books.google.de ).
• 237. Conrad Heinrich Stünkel . In: New Nekrolog der Deutschen . Voigt, Ilmenau / Weimar 1828, p. 1016-1017 ( books.google.de ).