German chemist (1827?1899)
Carl Scheibler
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Born
| Carl Wilhelm Bernhard Scheibler
(
1827-02-16
)
16 February 1827
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Died
| 2 April 1899
(1899-04-02)
(aged 72)
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Nationality
| German
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Alma mater
| University of Berlin
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Scientific career
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Fields
| sugar
,
chemistry
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Carl Wilhelm Bernhard Scheibler
(16 February 1827 ? 2 April 1899) was a German chemist. Scheibler's research focused on sugar, including the technical chemistry of sugar production and the composition of
molasses
.
Scheibler was born the son of Friedrich August Theodor Scheibler (1788?1864) and Anna Gertrud Eschweiler (1806?1877) in Gemereth/
Eupen
, at that time a small town close to the Belgian border. He went to school in
Aachen
and studied chemistry at the
University of Berlin
. He received his PhD for his work
De Wolframiatibus
.
[1]
Scheibler worked with Gustav Werther in
Konigsberg
and from 1858 at the
Pommersche Provinzial-Zuckersiederei
in
Stettin
.
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[3]
[4]
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In 1866 Scheibler founded the
Zuckerchemische und technische Laboratorium
(Laboratory for sugar chemistry and technology) in Berlin, which was financed by the Verein der Deutschen Zuckerrubenindustrie (Association of the German
Sugar Beet
Industry). It was one of the first institutes dedicated to the chemistry of sugar. In 1870 Scheibler became professor at the
Gewerbeakademie Berlin
and at the
University of Agriculture Berlin
and he also was a member of the imperial patent office in Berlin between 1877 and 1882.
[4]
[5]
After a conflict with the Verein der Deutschen Zuckerrubenindustrie in 1882, he only worked privately at his institute, but he was able to patent several inventions in that time. For example, he helped his relative
Carl Johann Heinrich Scheibler
invent a
fertiliser
, and he also improved
smokeless powder
for
Otto von Bismarck
in 1888.
[4]
[5]
His most influential patents were based on the technical production of sugar from beets. The crystallisation of sugar from molasses was difficult and therefore the sugar had to be separated from the molasses. In 1863 Scheibler invented the
elution
method. During his research on molasses he discovered several compounds in molasses, for example
betaine
,
asparaginic acid
,
glutamic acid
,
arabinose
,
arabinic acid
,
dextran
,
phosphoglyceride
and
cholesterol
.
[4]
[5]
He improved the
strontia saccharate process
, in which
strontium hydroxide
is mixed with the molasses and strontium di-saccharate precipitates and can be separated from the molasses. Prior to
World War I
the beet sugar industry used 100,000 to 150,000 tons of strontium hydroxide for this process per year.
[7]
Scheibler died in Berlin on 2 April 1899.
[5]
References
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edit
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"De Wolframiatibus : Dissertatio Inauguralis Chemica"
. Archived from
the original
on 2011-07-19
. Retrieved
2010-11-09
.
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Elisabeth Nay-Scheibler:
Die Geschichte der Familie Scheibler
, in:
Stiftung Scheibler-Museum
Rotes Haus
Monschau
(Hg), Koln 1994
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Carl Johann Heinrich Scheibler:
Geschichte und Geschlechtsregister der Familie Scheibler
, Cologne, 1895
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a
b
c
d
Degener, P. (1900).
"Carl Scheibler"
.
Berichte der Deutschen Chemischen Gesellschaft
.
33
(3): 3839?3846.
doi
:
10.1002/cber.190003303200
.
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a
b
c
d
e
Michael Engel (2005),
"Scheibler, Carl Wilhelm Bernhard"
,
Neue Deutsche Biographie
(in German), vol. 22, Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, pp. 627?628
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Liebermann, C. (1899).
"Sitzung vom 10. April 1899"
.
Berichte der Deutschen Chemischen Gesellschaft
.
32
: 981?985.
doi
:
10.1002/cber.189903201153
.
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Heriot, T. H. P. (1920).
"Strontia-saccharate Process"
.
Manufacture of Sugar from the Cane and Beet
. London: Longmans, Green and Co. pp. 341?2.
ISBN
978-1-4437-2504-0
.
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