Wilhelm Bersch

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Wilhelm Bersch (before 1918)

Wilhelm JK Bersch (born June 16, 1868 in Baden near Vienna ; † October 1, 1918 ) was an Austrian chemist and agricultural scientist .

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Wilhelm Bersch attended elementary school in his place of birth and then the grammar school there, followed by the one in Vienna, studied from autumn 1884 at the secondary agricultural school Francisco Josephinum in Mödling , and obtained his secondary school diploma in summer 1887. He served as a one-year volunteer from October 1, 1887 to September 30, 1888, passed the reserve officer examination at Christmas 1888, and was appointed lieutenant of the reserve. In autumn 1887 he was enrolled at the Vienna Technical University and studied chemistry and chemical technology with Bauer and Oser, among others. From 1888 he studied at the University of Leipzig and worked there in Wilhelm Ostwald 's second chemical laboratory . In 1891 he wrote his dissertation on the conversion of oxides and hydroxides of heavy metals with halogen compounds of alkalis .

He worked at several scientific and technical institutions in Austria, from 1891 to 1894 as an assistant at the Research Institute for the Sugar Industry in Vienna. From 1894 he worked as an assistant at the Imperial and Royal Agricultural and Chemical Research Station in Vienna (see: Taborstrasse 90–92 ). When the department for moor culture started its work within the research institute on November 1st, 1901 , Bersch became its head. The department had the task of "promoting peatland cultivation and peat utilization in every direction, after many peatlands existed in the dual monarchy at that time, but lay fallow."

From 1908 he taught as an honorary lecturer at the kk Hochschule für Bodenkultur ; In 1915 he was awarded the title of associate professor .

In the autumn of 1916, Bersch resigned from the civil service and became involved in the German Agricultural Society for Austria .

Bersch published numerous scientific papers on chemical and agricultural topics, was the editor of several chemical and agronomic journals, for example the magazine for rural experiments in Austria and the communications of the association for the dissemination of agricultural knowledge .

He received the honorary diploma at the anniversary exhibition in Vienna in 1898 .

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Literature / sources

  • Vita in Bersch's dissertation.
  • German Biographical Archive , I 92,140; II 111,170-172.
  • Herm. Cl. Kosel: German-Austrian artists and writers lexicon , vol. 1, Vienna 1902.
  • Johann Christian Poggendorff : JC Poggendorff's biographical-literary concise dictionary for the history of exact sciences , Leipzig, vol. IV, part 1, 1904.
  • Herrmann AL Degener : Who is it? : Zeitgenossenlexikon containing biographies and bibliographies , 4th edition, Leipzig 1909.
  • Kürschner's German Literature Calendar , 36/1914.
  • Gerfried Eder: From the weather garden of the kk moor research to the meteorological observation station in Gumpenstein. In: Höhere Bundeslehr- und Forschungsanstalt Raumberg-Gumpenstein (ed.): 50 years of meteorological observations in Gumpenstein 1955–2004. November 29, 2005 ( PDF ).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ K. k. Agricultural-chemical experimental station in Vienna. In:  Oesterreichische Forst- und Jagd-Zeitung. Illustrirtes Wochenblatt for forestry and timber trade, timber industry, hunting and fishing , No. 46 (985) / 1901 (XIXth year), November 15, 1901, p. 369, column 1. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / ftz.
  2. ↑ Eder: Vom Wettergarten (...) , p. 7.
  3. ↑ Daily news. (…) Prof. Dr. Wilhelm Bersch †. In:  Wiener Landwirtschaftliche Zeitung. Illustrated newspaper for the whole of agriculture , No. 83 (5401) / 1918 (LXVIIIth year), October 16, 1918, p. 659 middle. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / wlz.
personal data
SURNAME Bersch, Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bersch, Wilhelm JK
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian chemist and agronomist
DATE OF BIRTH June 16, 1868
PLACE OF BIRTH Baden near Vienna
DATE OF DEATH October 1, 1918