Michael Balling (chemist)

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Michael Balling (born March 17, 1776 in Rothenhaus Castle , Northern Bohemia ; † May 31, 1848 in Rokitzan ) was a Bohemian chemist and director of the Imperial and Royal Hüttenamtsamt.

Life

Balling, a son of Johann Kaspar Balling, (born August 8, 1737 in Würzburg ; † September 17, 1805 there) was an engineer and surveyor, worked from 1800 to 1808 as a chemist and shift supervisor in the Gabrielahütten ironworks near Komotau in the Ore Mountains in western Bohemia In 1814 he was transferred to the Klabava smelter near Rokycany as a shift supervisor, then in 1815 he became the kk-Oberhüttenamts-director of the imperial-royal smelter administration in Zbirow in Bohemia, where he worked until his retirement in 1828. Michael Balling was the father of Friedrich Balling and Carl Joseph Napoleon Balling and had a brother Kaspar Augustin Balling (1777-1844) with offspring in Prague.

literature

  • Basarová, Gabriela: Carl Joseph Napoleon Balling - professor at the Technical University in Prague 1805–1868. In: Society for the History of Brewing eV: Yearbook 2005. Berlin 2005, p. 28.
personal data
SURNAME Balling, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bohemian chemist and director of the kk Oberhüttenamtsamt
DATE OF BIRTH March 17, 1776
PLACE OF BIRTH Rothenhaus Castle, Northern Bohemia
DATE OF DEATH May 31, 1848
Place of death Rokitzan