Members of the Second Chamber of the Diet of the Kingdom of Saxony - Julius Adolph Stckhardt, Wilhelm Liebknecht, August Bebel (Paperback)

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Julius Adolph Stckhardt, Wilhelm Liebknecht, August Bebel, Bernhard Eisenstuck, Karl Heine, Georg Von Vollmar, Rudolf Heinze. Not illustrated. Excerpt: Julius Adolph Stckhardt (4 January 1809 1 June 1886) was a German agricultural chemist. He is mostly recognized for his work on furtilizers, fume damage of plants and his book Die Schule der Chemie (School of Chemistry), which was translated into 14 languages. His 500 lectures and over 500 publications helped to establish agricultural chemistry in Germany. Stckhardt was born in Rhrsdorf near Meien on 4 January 1809 as son of a preacher. He was apprentice in a pharmacy from 1824 to 1828, studied at the University of Berlin, and obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Leipzig in 1837. He worked at a mineral water factory from 1835 till he received a position at the Kniglichen Gewerbeschule in Chemnitz (Royal Saxon Industrial School) in 1838. In 1846 he became member of Dresden's scientific society ISIS, led by Ludwig Reichenbach. Building in Tharandt named after StckhardtFrom 1847 to 1883, Stckhardt worked at the Knigliche Forstakademie (Royal Academy of Forestry) in Tharandt, where a building was named after him. In 1866, he was elected Fellow of the Leopoldina. He died in Tharandt on 1 June 1886 three years after he retired from the Forstakademie. One of his sons, Carl Georg Stckhardt, emigrated to the United States and taught exegesis at the Concordia Seminary of the Lutheran Church St. Louis. After the book of Justus von Liebig, Organic Chemistry in its Application to Agriculture and Physiology was published in 1840, Stckhardt recognized the importance of fertilization for farmers and invested most of his time in popularizing scientific knowledge. In 1843 he started to give c... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=18558873