Karl Wilhelm Gottlob Kastner
Karl Wilhelm Gottlob Kastner (
1783 -
1857) was a
German chemist and natural scientist.
Kastner is best known today as the teacher of chemist
Justus von Liebig.
Kastner received his doctorate in
1805 under the guidance of
Johann Gottling and began lecturing at the
University of Jena. He moved on to the
University of Heidelberg and became professor at the
University of Halle in
1812. In
1818 he relocated to the
University of Bonn. Again he moved on, partly for political reasons, to the
University of Erlangen, where he remained for the remainder of his professional life. Liebig, who had come to Bonn to study with Kastner, followed him to Erlangen and received his doctorate in 1822.
Many of Kastner's academic positions required not only the teaching of chemistry, but also
mathematics,
zoology,
physics,
mineralogy,
geology, and
pharmacy.
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