Paul Riebeck
Paul Riebeck (born October 9, 1859 in Weißenfels , † October 10, 1889 in Yokohama ; full name Johann Wilhelm Paul Riebeck ) was a German chemist and entrepreneur . The Paul Riebeck Foundation bears his name.
Life
Riebeck studied chemistry at the Universities of Bonn in 1879 and Halle. In Bonn he was a member of the Corps Hansea Bonn and in Halle at Corps Guestphalia Halle .
The son of Carl Adolf Riebecks and brother of the ethnologist Emil Riebeck suffered from incurable lung and kidney disease. In 1887 he realized a lifelong dream and appointed the tropical medicine specialist Carl Anton Mense to be his personal physician to take him on a trip around the world. He traveled to South Africa together with Mense . Other stops on Riebeck's last trip were New Zealand , Australia , Samoa , Singapore , China and Japan , where he died.
In line with his last wish, a considerable part of his fortune flowed into the Paul Riebeck Foundation for the elderly and the sick, founded in 1894. The Paul-Riebeck-Stift , built by the foundation between 1894 and 1896, became the largest social institution in the city of Halle (Saale) . The five-storey historicist building , built according to the plans of the architects Alfred Grenander and Otto Spalding , is surrounded by a park and received the popular name Hallenser Schloss . The listed building still houses a nursing home today.
literature
- Simone Trieder : Emil and Paul Riebeck. Sons of the industrialist Carl Adolph Riebeck. (= Mitteldeutsche Kulturhistorische Hefte , Issue 12.) Hasenverlag, Halle (Saale) 2008, ISBN 978-3-939468-14-1 .
Web links
- The history of the founder on the website of the Paul Riebeck Foundation, accessed on September 21, 2011
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 11, 236.
- ^ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 116, 1023.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Riebeck, Paul |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Riebeck, Johann Wilhelm Paul (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German chemist and entrepreneur |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 9, 1859 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Weissenfels |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 10, 1889 |
| Place of death | Yokohama |