Max Weidig

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Max Arthur Weidig (born February 7, 1879 in Altenburg , † November 5, 1912 in Freiberg ) was a German metallurgical engineer.

Life

Max Weidig was born as the son of a teacher in Altenburg. After graduating from the Altenburger Realgymnasium, he began studying at the Bergakademie Freiberg in 1898 , which he completed in 1902 as a metallurgical engineer. He then worked as a production engineer in Auerhammer until 1906 . He then expanded his economic and commercial knowledge at the Society for Economic Education in Frankfurt am Main .

In 1908 he took up a position as assistant to Carl Schiffner in the radium research department of the Hüttenmännisches Institut of the Freiberg Mining Academy. He received his PhD in 1911. After his habilitation in the same year, he became a private lecturer for radioactivity and radioactive substances at the Bergakademie, and a year later he was appointed associate professor. He was also appointed head of the Radium Institute, founded in 1912, although he was only able to hold this position for a short time, as he fell ill with stomach and intestinal problems in the summer of 1912 and died on November 5, 1912.

Weidig's particular merit was the research into the radium sources in Saxony together with Carl Schiffner and Richard Franz Friedrich . Between 1908 and 1912 four parts of the work Radioactive Waters appeared in Saxony . On September 5, 1980 Max Weidig was honored with a plaque in Bad Brambach .

Publications

  • Radioactive waters in Saxony . Parts 2-4, 1909-1912
  • Metallurgical and technological studies in the field of the alloy industry, in particular on the annealing of metals and alloys . Dissertation TH Dresden and Bergakademie Freiberg, 1911
  • Radioactive sources of uniquely high activity near Brambach in the Saxon Vogtlande . In: Journal of Public Chemistry . 1911
  • Radioactivity and science. Inaugural lecture at the Aula d. Royal Saxon. Bergakademie zu Freiberg on June 17th, 1911

literature

  • K. Fröhlich: Laudation for MAX WEIDIG . In: Journal of Physiotherapy . 33/1981/4, pp. 215-218
  • W. Buchheim and H. Gast: Contributions from the Bergakademie Freiberg from 1908 to the establishment of the so-called Radiumbad Brambach in 1912 and to the geoscientific exploration of its surroundings until 1969 . In: Radon Therapy Today . Akademie-Verlag Berlin, 1989, pp. 43-48
  • Hartmut Schleiff, Roland Volkmer, Herbert Kaden : Catalogus Professorum Fribergensis: Professors and teachers at the TU Bergakademie Freiberg 1765 to 2015. Freiberg, 2015, ISBN 978-3-86012-492-5 , p. 105

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Hartmut Schleiff, Roland Volkmer, Herbert Kaden : Catalogus Professorum Fribergensis: Professors and teachers at the TU Bergakademie Freiberg 1765 to 2015. Freiberg, 2015, ISBN 978-3-86012-492-5 , p. 105
  2. ↑ K. Fröhlich: Laudation for MAX WEIDIG . In: Journal of Physiotherapy . 33/1981/4, pp. 215-218

Remarks

  1. ↑ a b The first part (1908) was written by Carl Schiffner, the second part (1909) by Schiffner and Weidig, the third part (1911) Schiffner, Weidig and Richard Franz Friedrich were involved, and the fourth part ( 1912) Max Weidig wrote alone.
personal data
SURNAME Weidig, Max
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Weidig, Max Arthur (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German metallurgical engineer
DATE OF BIRTH February 7, 1879
PLACE OF BIRTH Altenburg
DATE OF DEATH November 5, 1912
Place of death Freiberg