Otto Krätz

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Otto Paul Krätz (born March 24, 1937 in Munich ) is a German chemist and chemical historian.

Life

Krätz was born as the only son of a businessman in Munich, but grew up in Braunschweig. After their father was wounded in 1942, the family went back to Bavaria, to Starnberg. Krätz studied chemistry at the University of Munich , where he received his doctorate in chemistry in 1968 (“Oxidative decarboxylation with pyridine- N- oxide”). From 1969 he was first a Liebig scholarship holder and then permanently employed at the Research Institute for the History of Natural Science and Technology at the Deutsches Museum in Munich, where he became the main department head (head of the education department). After teaching positions in Munich, Augsburg and Stuttgart, he was honorary professor for the history of chemistry at the University of Stuttgart from 1991 . He lives in Starnberg .

In 1986 he received the authors' award from the Society of German Chemists and in 2001 the Liebig-Wöhler friendship award . Numerous essays on the history of chemistry come from him. B. in the journal Chemistry in Our Time and the publications of the research institute of the Deutsches Museum. He is also known for the experimental lectures he gave at many German universities (e.g. Chemistry at the medieval fairs ).

He is particularly concerned with the history of chemistry in the 19th and early 20th centuries, for example Justus von Liebig . He wrote illustrated books on Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and the natural sciences, Casanova and Alexander von Humboldt .

Heinrich Kahlert was one of his doctoral students .

Fonts (selection)

  • with Friedrich R. Kreißl: Fire and Flame, Sound and Smoke: Show experiments and chemical history , Wiley-VCH, Weinheim 2008
  • Casanova, lover of science , Callwey 1995
  • Alexander von Humboldt. Scientist, cosmopolitan, revolutionary , Callwey, Munich 1997, 2nd edition 2000
  • Goethe and the natural sciences , Callwey, Munich 1998
  • The riddle cabinet of Dr. Krätz , Wiley-VCH 1996
  • Fascination chemistry - 7000 years of teaching about materials and processes , Callwey, Munich 1990
  • Historical chemical experiments: embedded in the background of three centuries , Aulis Verlag 1987, 4th edition 1997
  • The chemistry in the mirror of the literature of the 20th century , in: Chemistry in our time Volume 25, 1991, Issue 1, pp 44-50
  • Garden whispers: Spicy and entertaining things from the history of gardens , Callwey, Munich 2009
  • with Claus Priesner (ed.): Liebig's experimental lecture: lecture book and Kekulé's transcript , VCH, Weinheim 1983

literature

  • An original from the Munich Museum Island: Otto Krätz , in: Nachrichten aus der Chemie 56, February 2008, pp. 146–147 (in the "Who is it" series).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Curriculum vitae in his dissertation Oxidative Decarboxylations with Pyridine-N-Oxide (1968).
  2. ↑ Biographical information from his various articles in Chemistry in Our Time .
  3. ↑ Among other things, article about Liebig in Die Grosse der Weltgeschichte , Kindler, Munich 1976, his article about Liebig in his book Fire and Flame , and Justus Liebig (1803–1873) in his time. Approaching a Difficult Genius , In: Chemistry in Our Time Volume 37, 2003, 416-423.
  4. ↑ His dissertation was published in 2001: Kahlert, Chemiker unter Hitler. Economy, technology and science in German chemistry from 1914 to 1945 , Bernardus Verlag.
personal data
SURNAME Krätz, Otto
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Krätz, Otto Paul (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German chemist and chemical historian
DATE OF BIRTH March 24, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich