Kurd Endell
Kurd Endell (born February 1, 1887 in Stade , † March 22, 1945 in Berlin-Wannsee ) was a German mineralogist and chemist .
Endell, whose father was a secret building officer , studied chemistry and mineralogy in Lausanne , Grenoble , Breslau and Berlin from 1905 . In 1910 he received his doctorate in mineralogy. He was a freelance industrial researcher, but also from 1913 private lecturer and from 1921 associate professor at the TH Berlin-Charlottenburg . He committed suicide in his house at the Wannsee end of World War II suicide .
Endell dealt primarily with applied mineralogy and there with cements , clay minerals and cohesive soils , fire resistance of building materials such as cement mortar , glasses and glazes and slags . He developed a bentonite , which was of great economic importance in Germany. He worked with Ulrich Hofmann on this. In addition, he developed measuring methods and devices (heating microscope, measurement of viscosity) and also worked theoretically (separation point theory, 1940).
He advised the Mansfeld copper slate building union and the magnesite works in Radenthein .
Web links
- Sbrzesny, Walter: Endell, Kurd. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 4, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1959, ISBN 3-428-00185-0 , p. 491 ( digitized version ).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ulrich Hofmann, In memory of Kurd Endell, Angewandte Chemie, Volume 63, 1951, p. 275
- ↑ Kurt Endell, Wilhelm Loos , Herbert Breth : Connection between colloid-chemical and soil-physical indicators of cohesive soils and the effect of frost, research from the road system 16, Berlin 1939
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| SURNAME | Endell, Kurd |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German mineralogist and chemist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 1, 1887 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Stade |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 22, 1945 |
| Place of death | Berlin-Wannsee |