Education
University of Göttingen.
University of Göttingen.
He received his doctorate in Göttingen, and from 1831 was an instructor of technological-chemical subjects at the Polytechnic School in Hanover (Höheren Gewerbeschule). Here he taught classes in physics, mineralogy and chemistry. With technologist Karl Karmarsch (1803-1879), he published a technical dictionary (Technisches Wörterbuch).
Also, with Karmarsch, he developed a process for the preparation of gun cotton.
In 1881 he introduced an apparatus for the testing of milk (lactometer, patent# 241655).