Wilhelm von Beck

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Wilhelm von Beck (born December 10, 1822 in Mogiljow , † December 3, 1907 in Saint Petersburg ) was a German chemist and mineralogist from Riga .

Life

Von Beck was a mineral chemistry teacher in Saint Petersburg . Later he was appointed professor of chemistry and head of the chemical laboratory at the Imperial Mining Institute in Saint Petersburg ( Mining Academy ). In 1873 he became the Museum Inspector and Actual Council of State before retiring in 1881.

Publications

  • About nephrite and its deposits ; St. Petersburg, 1882
  • Nyemetzko-russkiĭ Chorno-tekhnicheskiĭ Slovar = German-Russian technical dictionary of mining and metallurgy , 1890

literature

  • Samuel Edson Cassino (Ed.): The Naturalists' Universal Directory. Containing Names, Addresses and Special Subjects of Study, of Professional and Amateur Naturalists in All Parts of the World . 19th edition, compiled in 1904, published 1905, page 166.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Wilhelm Peter Beck (entry in the Erik Amburger database)
  2. ↑ Robert Leinonen, Erika Voigt: Germans in St. Petersburg: a look at the German Evangelical Lutheran Smolensky Cemetery and European cultural history. , Institut Nordostdeutsches Kulturwerk, 1998, page 25 ( snippet view on Google Books ).
  3. ^ Rudolf Werner Soukup, Andreas Schober: A library as eloquent witness of a comprehensive change in the scientific worldview - Part I: The authors of the works in the library of Robert Wilhelm Bunsen in short biographies. , Vienna University of Technology (doc-file; 2.18 MB) ( Memento of the original from October 31, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.althofen.at
personal data
SURNAME Beck, Wilhelm von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German chemist and mineralogist
DATE OF BIRTH December 10, 1822
PLACE OF BIRTH Mogilev
DATE OF DEATH December 3, 1907
Place of death St. Petersburg