Karl August Neumann

Karl August Neumann (6 April 1771 in Großbothen – 10 February 1866 in Prague) was a German-Austrian chemist, known for contributions made towards the development of the sugar and flax industries in Bohemia.[1]

Beginning in 1793 he studied cameralistics at the University of Jena. From 1796 he spent several years as a teacher of commercial sciences on the Danish island of Als, then in 1802 relocated to Bohemia as head of a cotton factory in Josefsthal-Kosmanos. He made the acquaintance of Franz Josef von Gerstner, who in 1807 appointed him to the Polytechnic Institute in Prague, where from 1808 to 1817, Neumann worked as a professor of chemistry. In 1817 he was named Kommerzialrat (counsellor of commerce), and from 1817 to 1826, he served on the board of commercial and factory inspections.[2][1]

Selected works
  • Die Behandlung der Feuerwärme (II, 1799–1800).
  • Lehrbuch der Chemie mit besonderer Hinsicht auf Technologie (vol. 1, 1810); Textbook of chemistry with particular regard to technology.
  • Vergleichung der Zuckerfabrikation aus in Europa einheimischen Gewächsen mit der aus Zuckerrohr in Tropenländern (1837) – Comparison of sugar production from European indigenous plants with that of sugar cane from tropical countries.
  • Chemie, als natürliche Grundlage wissenschaftlicher Natur- und Gewerbskunde (1842).[3][2]

References
  1. Neumann, Karl August (1771-1866), Chemiker und Kaufmann Österreichisches Biographisches Lexikon und biographische Dokumentation
  2. ADB:Neumann, Karl August at Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie
  3. Google Search (published works)
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