Background
König was born in Lavesum, Haltern, North Rhine-Westphalia.
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Joseph Konig
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He studied at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen and was a member of the Corps Verdensia (1866) and Hercynia (1922).
Career
He developed many analytical techniques and created the foundations for the modern quality control of foodstuffs. He was awarded a Doctorate.Phil. In 1871 he became director of the newly established agricultural research station in Münster.
In 1892 he was elected honorary professor at the Münster Royal Academy (Königliche Akademie zu Münster) and in 1899 was appointed to a chair at the present Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität.
He was appointed a Geheimer Regierungsrat. König died on 12 April 1930 in Münster.
In 1934 the Joseph König Memorial Medal (Joseph-König-Gedenkmünze) of the Food Chemistry Society (Lebensmittelchemische Gesellschaft), a specialist group within the Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker, was endowed. The Agricultural Investigation and Research Institute of North Rhine-Westphalia (Landwirtschaftliche Untersuchungsund Forschungsanstalt Nordrhein-Westfalen) was renamed on the occasion of its 110th birthday as the "Joseph-König-Institut".
The secondary school of Haltern was named the Joseph-König-Gymnasium in his honour in 2003.
Membership
German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina]
In 1887 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina.
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Nationality
Germany