Wilhelm Stein (chemist)

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Heinrich Wilhelm Stein (born December 9, 1811 in Nüstenbach , † December 6, 1889 in Vienna ) was a German chemist .

Life

Wilhelm Stein was born in Nüstenbach near Mosbach in the Grand Duchy of Baden and probably moved as a child with his mother to live with his grandfather, who worked as a surgeon in Kürnbach . Stein trained as a pharmacist and studied chemistry for one semester with Justus von Liebig in Gießen in 1838/39 , before working another semester as an amanuensis with Liebig. In 1839 he was appointed head of the Struveschen Mineralwasseranstalt in Leipzig and from 1843 also worked in the same position at the Struveschen Mineralwasseranstalt in Dresden .

On April 9, 1850, Stein was appointed professor of technical chemistry by Julius Ambrosius Hülße at the Technical College in Dresden, which later became the Royal Saxon Polytechnic and is now the Technical University of Dresden . With the appointment of Stein, there is also a personal separation of the professorship for chemistry. Eduard Loesche , who had been Professor of Chemistry and Physics since December 1, 1848, then took over the teaching of theoretical chemistry . Until 1854 he also gave the lecture “General Mechanical Engineering” in place of Johann Andreas Schubert , who changed his subject to civil engineering . At the same time, Stein was a teacher of physics and chemistry at the royal surgical-medical academy in Dresden from 1852 to 1857. On March 1, 1863 , he was admitted to the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina with the surname Fourcroy .

In addition to his tasks in research and teaching at the Technical Educational Institute, Stein was a member of the technical deputation of Saxony between 1863 and 1879 and in this position prepared among other things reports on patentability. He had been a pharmacy auditor in Dresden since 1857.

After retiring for health reasons on October 1, 1879, he moved to Vienna to live with his daughter. There he died on December 6, 1889 and was buried in the Matzleinsdorf cemetery.

Works (selection)

Wilhelm Stein published numerous papers, especially in the journal Journal for practical chemistry . Since 1851 he himself was co-editor of the polytechnic Centralblatt . The following monographs should be mentioned:

  • Twelve lectures on chemistry . Printed by the Treubner'schen Officin, Leipzig 1849, urn : nbn: de: bsz: 14-db-id3257252845 .
  • Organization of chemistry classes . Rudolf Kuntze's publishing house, Dresden 1857, urn : nbn: de: bvb: 12-bsb10707976-0 .
  • Chemical and chemical-technical investigation of the coal of Saxony (=  the coal of the Kingdom of Saxony in their geognostic and technical behavior . 2nd division). Published by Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig 1857, urn : nbn: de: bsz: 14-db-id3939153288 .
  • Instructions for qualitative analysis and for the most important salary checks for the first lesson and for self-study . G. Schönfeld's Buchhandlung (CA Werner), Dresden 1859 ( google.de ).

literature

  • Stein, Heinrich Wilhelm . In: Johann Christian Poggendorff (Hrsg.): Biographical-literary concise dictionary for the history of exact sciences . 2nd volume (M-Z). Publisher by Johann Ambrosius Barth, Leipzig 1863, Sp. 992-993 ( archive.org ).
  • Hermann Ludwig : Did the pharmacists play a major role in the development of the natural sciences, especially chemistry? In: Archives of Pharmacy . Volume 198 (2nd row, Volume 148), 2nd issue. In commission of the bookshop of the orphanage, Halle a. P. 1871, p. 125 ( archive.org ).
  • Stein, Heinrich Wilhelm . In: Carl Schaedler (Hrsg.): Biographical-literary concise dictionary of scientifically important chemists . R. Friedlaender & Sohn, Berlin 1891, p. 127-128 ( archive.org ).
  • Stein, Heinrich Wilhelm . In: BW Feddersen , AJ von Oettingen (Hrsg.): Biographical-literary concise dictionary for the history of the exact sciences . 3rd volume (1858-1883), 2nd division (M-Z). Publisher by Johann Ambrosius Barth, Leipzig 1898, p. 1286 ( archive.org ).
  • Heiner Hegewald: Teaching and research in technical chemistry at the Dresden Polytechnic under Stein (2nd period 1850–1879: "maturation period") . In: On the development of technical chemistry in the 19th century with special consideration of the chemist training at the Technical University of Dresden and its predecessor institutions . Dissertation. Halle (Saale) 2005, p. 63–86 , urn : nbn: de: gbv: 3-000007938 .

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personal data
SURNAME Stein, Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Stein, Heinrich Wilhelm (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German chemist
DATE OF BIRTH December 9, 1811
PLACE OF BIRTH Nüstenbach
DATE OF DEATH December 6, 1889
Place of death Vienna