Sebastian Karl Schüzenbach

Sebastian Karl Schüzenbach , also Karl Sebastian Schützenbach , (born April 16, 1793 in Endingen am Kaiserstuhl near Freiburg im Breisgau , † February 14, 1869 in Baden-Baden ) was a German chemist.

He was the son of an export merchant and initially became a businessman at the request of his father, but was more interested in chemistry and technology. In 1813/14 he took part in the wars of liberation against Napoleon. As early as 1817 he developed a method to produce vinegar quickly, one of the first biocatalysis processes in chemical engineering (the vinegar bacteria were fixed on beech shavings and were sprinkled with water). He also made progress in paint production and in 1824 founded a factory in Freiburg for paint production (metal paints) and lead sugar . Because of the associated health risks, however, he turned to sugar production and built a sugar factory for beet sugar in Waghäusel in 1839 . Here, too, he introduced several technical innovations. He had his maceration process patented in France in 1852.

literature

• Winfried R. Pötsch, Annelore Fischer and Wolfgang Müller with the collaboration of Heinz Cassebaum: Lexicon of important chemists , VEB Bibliographisches Institut Leipzig, 1988, ISBN 3-323-00185-0 .
• Carl Leisewitz :  Schüzenbach, Sebastian Karl . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 33, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1891, p. 152.
• Rainer Loose : No walk in the park for speculators: the Württemberg Society for beet sugar production (1836-1854) . In: Journal of Württemberg State History . Stuttgart, Vol. 72 (2013), pp. 313-355 ( online ).