Max Bamberger

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Maximilian Georg Matthias Bamberger (born October 7, 1861 in Kirchbichl , Tyrol , † October 28, 1927 in Vienna ) was an Austrian chemist.

Life

Bamberger, son of the brewery manager Matthias Bamberger, attended the state high school in Salzburg from 1872 to 1879 and studied at the kk technical college in Vienna from 1879 to 1883 . In July 1884 he received his license to practice teaching (chemistry at upper secondary schools and physics at lower secondary schools). He then taught chemistry and physics at the Realschule Vienna II and later at the Rainer'schen Privat-Unterrealschule III. District and at a commercial training school.

After receiving a state scholarship at the chemical-technical research institute of the Imperial and Royal Austrian Museum for Art and Industry , Bamberger was Hugo Weidel's assistant at the Imperial and Royal University of Agriculture in Vienna from April 1887 to May 1888 . Together with Weidel, he produced one of his first scientific publications, Studies on the Reactions of Quinoline , which was presented at a meeting of the Imperial Academy of Sciences in early 1888 .

In 1888 Bamberger went back to his alma mater , the Imperial and Royal Technical University, where he worked from now on until the end of his life. At first he worked as Alexander Bauer's assistant , taxidermist and adjunct. After his doctorate in 1891 in Giessen , Dr. phil. In 1892 he became a private lecturer in organic chemistry, in 1900 an associate professor. Professor of the Encyclopedia of Technical Chemistry and Agricultural Chemistry and finally appointed Full Professor of Inorganic Chemistry and Encyclopedia of Technical Chemistry in 1905. He was dean of the chemical faculty several times, and also rector of the university in 1916/17. In his inaugural speech, he lectured on the value of chemical research for the military .

Bamberger published more than 50 scientific papers, mainly in the reports of the meetings of the Imperial Academy of Sciences in Vienna . After minor paper-making work with Rudolf Benedikt (1852-1896), he worked from 1890 with Anton Landsiedl (1861-1929), Emil Vischner and later Herbert von Klimburg on a series of publications on resin overburden from conifers. For the 2nd edition of Julius Wiesner's standard work Die Rohstoffe des Pflanzenreiches: An attempt at a technical theory of raw materials in the vegetable kingdom (Leipzig 1900 and 1903) he wrote the chemical part of the chapter on resins . Bamberger received the Haitinger Prize of the Academy in 1919 for his research on resins .

Since 1896, Bamberger has published several times on radioactive sources in Austria, sometimes together with Landsiedl, Karl Krüse and Heinrich Mache . With his pupil Arthur Praetorius (1878 – after 1950) he researched the properties of the dye anthragallol ( anthracene brown ). From 1904, several papers on a gas diving device followed, which he had developed together with Friedrich Böck (1876–1958) and Friedrich Wanz and for which he registered a total of 26 patents, mainly on chemical processes for the regeneration of breathing air using alkali hyperoxides .

In the 1920s, various mineralogical treatises were written together with Roman Grengg (1884–1972) and Georg Weissenberger (1887 – after 1930). Together with Josef Nussbaum (1877–1955), he researched nitrogen-free explosives made from hydrogen peroxide during the First World War and, in the 1920s, researched the effects of industrial smoke emissions on vegetation.

In addition to his university activities, Bamberger was a member of the Patent Court in 1908, since 1912 a member of the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina in Halle , from 1913 to 1917 specialist consultant at the Technical Museum for Industry and Commerce , member of the explosives commission of the Austro-Hungarian Technical Military Committee and since 1924 Vice President of Urania . He was a member of the International Atomic Weight Commission and the commission for the award of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry .

Bamberger had been married to Minie Bauer, a daughter of his teacher Alexander Bauer, since 1902.

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personal data
SURNAME Bamberger, Max
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bamberger, Maximilian Georg Matthias (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian chemist
DATE OF BIRTH October 7, 1861
PLACE OF BIRTH Kirchbichl , Tyrol
DATE OF DEATH October 28, 1927
Place of death Vienna