Wilhelm Biltz

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Wilhelm Eugen Biltz

Wilhelm Eugen Biltz (born March 8, 1877 in Berlin , † November 13, 1943 in Heidelberg ) was a German chemist and scientific editor .

Life

Wilhelm Biltz was the son of the literary scholar and theater critic Karl Friedrich Biltz and Auguste Schlobach (1839-1883), daughter of the surveyor Tobias Schlobach (1798-1854). After graduating from the Royal Wilhelm Gymnasium in Berlin in 1895, he quickly devoted himself to studying chemistry under the influence of his older brother Heinrich Biltz . During his studies in 1896 he became a member of the Allemannia Heidelberg fraternity . He completed his studies at the University of Berlin , the University of Heidelberg and the University of Greifswald , where he finally received his doctorate on terpene chemistry in 1898 under Friedrich Wilhelm Semmler .

From 1900 Biltz was assistant and from 1903 private lecturer with Otto Wallach at the University of Göttingen . He initially dealt with vapor pressure measurements and molecular weight determinations in solutions of inorganic substances , later mainly with research on colloid chemistry . He received further suggestions from Clemens Winkler in analytical and inorganic chemistry and later in Göttingen from Gustav Tammann and his metallurgy . During these years, Biltz applied thermal analysis to non-metallic systems such as rubidium and cesium polysulphides .

On March 15, 1905, at the age of 28, he was appointed full professor at the Bergakademie in Clausthal and appointed director of the chemical laboratory, where he taught until 1921. The First World War , in which he participated from the first to the last day, interrupted this phase of life. Biltz returned home as a lieutenant who was awarded the Iron Cross First Class . During the war, he was in command of the A7V Nixe armored car , which came across British tanks near Villers-Bretonneux on April 24, 1918 and fought the first tank battle in history.

On March 22, 1921, the appointment to full professor and director of the Inorganic Chemical Institute of the Technical University of Hanover opened a further phase of life . Here he experienced his most creative years and promoted young talents such as Wilhelm Klemm or Werner Fischer .

Biltz was a long-time member of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen , since 1931 a member of the Imperial German Academy of Natural Scientists (Leopoldina) in Halle an der Saale, since 1937 a corresponding member of the Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences in Berlin and a member of the standing committee of the German Bunsen Society . As part of his activities, he was vehemently committed to the interests of science, research and teaching. Increasingly, he made a name for himself as the author of textbooks, some of which he wrote together with his brother Heinrich Biltz . In addition, he was scientific author of the journal for inorganic and general chemistry for many years until his early retirement due to health reasons .

In November 1933 Wilhelm Biltz was one of several hundred signatories of the German professors 'commitment to Adolf Hitler at a ceremony organized by the National Socialist Teachers' Association in Saxony .

Wilhelm Biltz remained unmarried and without children.

Fonts (selection)

  • Together with Heinrich Biltz: Exercise examples from inorganic experimental chemistry . 1st edition 1907; 3rd and 4th ed. 1920, Engelmann, Leipzig 1920
  • Execution of qualitative analysis . 4th edition, Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft, Leipzig 1930
  • Space chemistry of solids . L. Voss, Leipzig 1934. Vol. X, 338 pp.
  • More works in the Library of Congress

Honors

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Willy Nolte (Ed.): Burschenschafter Stammrolle. List of the members of the German Burschenschaft according to the status of the summer semester 1934. Berlin 1934. p. 39.

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personal data
SURNAME Biltz, Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Biltz, Wilhelm Eugen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German chemist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH March 8, 1877
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH November 13, 1943
Place of death Heidelberg