Otto Brunck
Otto Brunck (born July 4, 1866 in Kirchheimbolanden , † January 29, 1946 in Freiberg ) was a German chemist .
Life
Heinrich von Brunck's nephew studied chemistry at the Technical University of Munich from 1884 to 1889 . Since 1890 assistant at the Chemical Institute of the University of Erlangen , he received his doctorate in 1892 with his thesis on some derivatives of diphenylparaphensylenediamine . To perfect his knowledge he went to the chemical laboratory of the Bergakademie Freiberg in 1892 . There he became first assistant and private lecturer in 1893.
In 1896 he was appointed associate professor and in 1902 full professor of chemistry. Brunck devoted himself particularly to the analysis of metals and in 1905 developed a method for determining the sulfur content of coal. In 1907 he demonstrated diacetyldioxime as a means for the quantitative determination of nickel and for its separation from other elements.
Publications
- The chemical investigation of the mine weather . Freiberg 1908
- A contribution to the history of chemistry . Düsseldorf 1931
- Occurrence, extraction and distribution of German crude oil on lubricating oils . Berlin 1935
- Quantitative analysis . Dresden 1936. 2nd edition 1950, 3rd edition 1962
literature
- Hans-Michael Körner (Ed.), Bruno Jahn: (Associate) Large Bavarian Biographical Encyclopedia. Volume 1 (A-G). KG Saur, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-598-11460-5 .
- 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. 94.
Individual evidence
- ↑ cf. Karl Saftien: Brunck, Heinrich von. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1955, ISBN 3-428-00183-4 , p. 677 ( digitized version ).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Brunck, Otto |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German chemist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 4th July 1866 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kirchheimbolanden |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 29, 1946 |
| Place of death | Freiberg |