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First visit to Germany. So as not to disrupt the regular teaching courses, I decided to sacrifice the winter holidays of 1882–1883 for my visit to other chemical laboratories. By travelling as far as possible on night trains I could use the days to the full and so was able to visit all the important university and polytechnic institutes in Germany and Switzerland. Meeting the leaders of these institutes led to helpful suggestions and many a friendship was started then.
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Now Kaliningrad, Russia.
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Now Virbalis, Lithuania.
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Now Chernyshevskoye, Russia.
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The hotel was centrally situated opposite to the Friedrichstrasse train station.
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The Collegium Carolinum, founded in 1745, was the forerunner of the Technical University Braunschweig (Brunswick). Ostwald refers here to the old building Collegium Carolinum which was destroyed in WW II.
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This is now the Gmelin Database of organometallic and inorganic compounds.
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Ostwald gives six functions for seven taps. Perhaps he miscounted.
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Ostwald refers to the fact that Horstmann applied the Second Law of Thermodynamics to chemical equilibria. Horstmann studied in Zurich under Rudolf Clausius, the discoverer of the Second Law of Thermodynamics.
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Jack, R.S., Scholz, F. (2017). Germany. In: Jack, R., Scholz, F. (eds) Wilhelm Ostwald. Springer Biographies. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-46955-3_9
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