Robert Biewend

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Robert Biewend (born April 12, 1844 in Hamburg , † January 7, 1913 in Clausthal ) was a German ironworker and university professor.

family

Robert Biewend came from a Clausthal family. His father was the Clausthal-born chemist and Münzwardein of the Hanseatic City of Hamburg Dr. Eduard Biewend (1814–1888), a pioneer of photography. He married his cousin Helene Koch, sister of his cousins Robert Koch and Hugo Koch . Biewend's daughter Else Holzschuh was one of the first women in Germany to study at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe .

Life

Robert Biewend studied mining and metallurgy at the Bergakademie Clausthal . On April 19, 1866, he was one of the five founders of the Corps Hercynia Clausthal . After completing his studies, he embarked on a career as a mountain official, first as a mountain assessor , then as a mountain ridge . In 1876 he was appointed lecturer in metallurgy and the art of tasting at the Bergakademie Clausthal. In 1885 Biewend received a call to the newly created chair for iron and steel engineering and thus became the pioneer of iron and steel engineering as an independent scientific subject in Clausthal. In 1903 he retired.

Awards

  • Appointment as honorary member of the Corps Hercynia Clausthal

literature

  • Hermann Meyer: 100 Years of Corps Hercynia zu Clausthal 1866–1966 , Mülheim an der Ruhr 1966, p. 181

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Stefan Krebs: Genesis and structure of a technical science field. About the struggle of the Aachen metallurgy for power and autonomy 1870–1914 , 2008, p. 101
personal data
SURNAME Biewend, Robert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German ironworker and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH April 12, 1844
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH January 7, 1913
Place of death Clausthal