Rudolf Günsberg
Herman Rudolf Günsberg was a chemist from Pidkamin, near Brody, who distinguished himself by his fostering of the economic development of Galicia.
Biography
He launched his academic career by completing a doctoral thesis at the University of Jena. Subsequently, he worked as an assistant professor at the Lviv Polytechnic in Lemberg between 1857 and 1868 and after that he started as the full Professor of Applied Chemistry at the same institution until 1879.He published both in Polish and German several scientific written works relating to the organising of higher technical education, industrial chemistry and agricultural chemistry. Among his first articles worthy of notice are "Die Fachschule für chemische Technik an der K. K. Technischen Hochschule zu Lemberg", "Mysli odpowiedniego urzadzenia szkol technicznych" and "Die chemisch-technischen Fachschulen". His papers were presented in important central European, British, American and Scandinavian scientific journals particularly in the latter half of the 19th century.
He especially wrote about questions concerning industrial and agricultural chemistry in Austrian scientific journals like Berichte der Deutschen Chemischen Gesellschaft, Wiener Akademische Sitzungsberichte and Dingler's Polytechnic Journal. He wrote about the ammonia-soda process, the analysis of the water of the Bronislaw Spring, of vegetable glue made of water-soluble grain, about the reactions of rubber with protein, of the structure of acetone and about hydrocarbons. His articles concerning agriculture were also published in the magazine called Rolnik in Lemberg between 1872 and 1873.