Kurt Alexander Winkler

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Kurt Alexander Winkler (born September 3, 1794 in Zschopenthal near Zschopau , † May 15, 1862 in Niederpfannenstiel ) was a German chemist and metallurgist.

Live and act

Memorial plaque for August Fürchtegott and Kurt Alexander Winkler on the tower house of the former blue paint factory in Zschopenthal

Kurt Alexander Winkler was the son of August Fürchtegott Winkler and father of the German chemist Clemens Winkler and the German landscape painter Olof Winkler . His sister Agnes Ulrike was the wife of the Oberbergrate and gem inspector August Breithaupt .

After the early death of his father in 1807, Kurt Alexander Winkler had to work as a pounding boy in the ore mines near Freiberg , until he attended the Freiberg mountain school and studied at the Freiberg mining academy from former friends of his father ( Sigismund August Wolfgang von Herder and Abraham Gottlob Werner ) was made possible. Due to his achievements, the Saxon state gave him the opportunity to go on a study trip to Sweden, where he worked for several years as Berzelius' assistant in Stockholm and studied mining in Sweden and Norway on extensive trips .

After his return to Saxony he entered the Saxon civil service in 1828. In 1840 he resigned from the civil service in order, like his ancestors, to manage the Zschopenthal blue paint factory . After the plant was closed, Kurt Alexander Winkler moved to the Niederpfannenstiel blue color plant . He went on further study trips to other German steelworks and to England. He published his experiences in blue color production and the history of silver, lead and copper smelters in the Ore Mountains in numerous specialist articles.

Private

Kurt Alexander Winkler was married to Elmonde Antonie Winkler, b. Schramm (born January 25, 1810 - † July 21, 1897). They had three sons and three daughters together.

  • Herrmann Alexander Winkler (born June 19, 1835 - † August 20, 1854 in Freiberg, as a student on the consequences of a foil stitch)
  • Alexander Franz Cäcil Winkler, died of typhus in 1838 at the age of two
  • Clemens Winkler , chemist
  • Elmonde Isabelle Winkler, wife of the chemist Ferdinand Bischoff
  • Olof Winkler , landscape painter and illustrator, son-in-law of the playwright Emil Palleske

Works

  • Theories of experience about the formation of slag. A guide to assessing the melting processes and arranging the charges , Freiberg 1827
  • Description of the Freyberg smelter processes for silver, bley and copper smelters , Freiberg 1837 ( digitized version )
  • Report on the composition, value ratios and charring ability of the finest turf varieties of the Saxon Ore Mountains , Freiberg 1840. ( digitized in the digital library Mecklenburg-Vorpommern)
  • The European amalgamation of silver ores and metallurgical products containing silver , Freiberg 1848 ( digitized version )
  • Instructions for the appropriate use of turf, bituminous coals, turf coals and coke, with different furnaces , Freiberg 1850
  • Historical reports about the extinct silver, lead and copper smelters in the Ore Mountains and Voigtland , Freiberg 1871 (edited by Clemens Alexander Winkler, digitized )

literature

  • Hanns A. Winkler, Anton Lissner, Alfred Lange, Rudolf Prokop: Clemens Winkler, commemorative publication on the 50th anniversary of his death , Freiberger Forschungshefte D8, Akademie-Verlag Berlin, 1954
  • Stadtverwaltung Aue (ed.): Aue, mosaic stones of history. Mike Rockstroh printer and publisher, Aue 1997 (page 63)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ O. Brunck: Clemens Winkler . In: Reports of the German Chemical Society . tape 39 , no. 4 , November 1906, p. 4493 , doi : 10.1002 / cber.190603904164 .
personal data
SURNAME Winkler, Kurt Alexander
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German chemist and metallurgist
DATE OF BIRTH September 3, 1794
PLACE OF BIRTH Zschopenthal near Zschopau
DATE OF DEATH May 15, 1862
Place of death Low pan handle