By Robert Smail Jack, Fritz Scholz
This e-book is the translated and commented autobiography of Wilhelm Ostwald (1853-1932), who gained the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1909. it's the first translation of the German unique model “Lebenslinien: Eine Selbstbiographie,” released by means of Ostwald in 1926/27, and has been painstakingly translated. The e-book contains reviews and motives, supporting readers to appreciate Ostwald’s textual content within the old context of Germany at first of the twentieth century.In his autobiography, Ostwald describes his awesome study occupation and his existence from his personal own view. Readers will locate details on how Ostwald immortalized himself via his learn on catalysis, chemical equilibria, technical chemistry, and particularly as one of many founders of recent actual chemistry. His large pursuits in technological know-how, starting from philosophy to the speculation of colours and the assumption of a common medical language are additional outstanding facets covered.This paintings will entice a extensive viewers of latest scientists: Wilhelm Ostwald has been greatly influential for the advance of chemistry and technological know-how, and plenty of of today’s best-known foreign medical faculties should be traced again to Ostwald’s scholars. Ostwald was once lively in Germany and what's now Latvia and Estonia, whereas additionally vacationing to the us, England and France. In his discussions and analyses of the operating stipulations of the time, readers will locate many matters mirrored that stay of relevance today.
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He was a peculiar little man in an old faded coat and with a white sailor’s beard shaved around his pock marked, brown-red cheeks. But he was a good musician. It was his habit to play the first fuge in C major from “The Well-Tempered Clavier” (“Das Wohltemperierte Klavier”) to recover from the drudgery of the lesson. For a long time I had no idea what this strange piece of music was until, hearing it much later, I recognised again the sounds from my youth. The violin was chosen for me, and I was to take lessons from a member of the theatre orchestra called Scholz.
The first was called Otto and was 4 or 5 years older than Fritz. He studied history in Dorpat, became Mommsens’s1 favourite pupil in Berlin and from there went on in Münster and Greifswald to gain a reputation that went far beyond just the circle of academic historians. Back then I only saw him occasionally when he came home for the holidays, but later, when my career led me as well to Germany I got to know him better and had a great regard for him. He died a few years ago. Fritz was even more talented than his brother.
I thought I’d also get through all right in English and French—but history and Russian were a different matter. Since my memory was good, I got hold of several different books on world history and compared what was written about the various periods in them and this made it easy to remember the basic facts. In this way I was relatively sure I’d pass this subject too. The big problem was Russian. My class mates hinted that there were ways to get round this, but I was too proud to take them up on it.