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#11201

Skjold Neckelmann

Skjold Neckelmann

1854 - 1903 (49 years)

Skjold Neckelmann was a Danish-German architect, best known for designing four Strasbourg buildings that are landmarks of the Neustadt district - the National and University Library, the National Theatre, the Palais de Justice and Saint-Pierre-le-Jeune Catholic Church.

#11202

Eric Gill

1882 - 1940 (58 years)

Arthur Eric Rowton Gill was an English sculptor, letter cutter, typeface designer, and printmaker. Although the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography describes Gill as "the greatest artist-craftsman of the twentieth century: a letter-cutter and type designer of genius", he is also a figure of considerable controversy following the revelations of his sexual abuse of two of his daughters and of his pet dog.

#11203

Spyros G. Tzafestas

#11204

Walter Bassett

1892 - 1978 (86 years)

Sir Walter Eric Bassett was an Australian engineer, soldier and academic. He studied engineering at the University of Melbourne before joining the First Australian Imperial Force during the First World War. Bassett won the Military Cross for gallantry on the Western Front before transferring to the Australian Flying Corps. Wounded in the hip on 1 June 1917 Bassett was disabled for the remainder of his life. On his return to Australia he joined the faculty at his alma mater, lecturing in mechanical engineering and aerodynamics. Bassett arranged the construction of the first wind tunnel in Australia.

#11205

Michel G. Malti

1895 - 1978 (83 years)

Michel George Malti was an American electrical engineer, known for his work in circuit analysis. He was born in Deir el Qamar, in modern-day Lebanon and died in Miami, Florida. He graduated from the Syrian Protestant college and from Georgia Tech , before joining Cornell University as an instructor and student, earning a M.Sc. and Ph.D. , all degrees in electrical engineering.

#11206

Leonhard Romeis

1854 - 1904 (50 years)

Leonhard Romeis was a German architect of historicism. Life Romeis was born the son of a carpenter. A charity to which the boy was sent for drawing lessons recognized his artistic talent early on. On his advice, he was sent to the Royal School of Applied Arts in Munich. After graduation Romeis travelled to Italy. In 1886 he was appointed professor at the Munich School of Applied Arts. In the same year he married the Bamberg merchant's daughter Anna Ramis, with whom he had five children. His 1888 born eldest son Benno Romeis worked as an anatomist at the University of Munich. Leonhard Romeis ...

#11207

George W. Barnwell

1888 - 1958 (70 years)

George Winchester Barnwell was an American electrical engineer, Professor of Production Practice at the Stevens Institute of Technology, and recipient of the Taylor Key award in 1937, presented for conspicuous service.

#11208

Alexander James Gibson

1876 - 1960 (84 years)

Alexander James Gibson was the first professor of engineering at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. Gibson was born on 18 December 1876 at Hanover Square, London, son of Edward Morris Gibson, articled clerk and later solicitor, and his wife Martha, née James.

#11209

Rudolf S. Enblom

Rudolf S. Enblom

1861 - 1945 (84 years)

Rudolf S. Enblom was a Swedish architect. Biography Rudolf Samuel Enblom was born in Hilleshög in Ekerö Municipality, Sweden. He studied at the Copenhagen Technical College and the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen 1882–84. He was a student at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm from 1884 to 1886. He was a senior teacher in construction engineering at the Royal Institute of Technology in 1899–1932 and director of its construction school in 1925–32.

#11210

Moritz Schröter

1851 - 1925 (74 years)

Maximilian Moritz Schröter was a German industrial engineer and university professor of thermodynamics and the theory of machines. Life and career Moritz Schröter was the son of Moritz Schröter, who himself was a university professor. After his father′s death in 1867, Gustav Zeuner became the guardian of 16-year-old Schröter. After finishing the Gymnasium in Zürich, Schröter studied at the Polytechnikum Zürich, where he was awarded a diploma in engineering. From 1873 to 1876 he worked in the locomotive factory Georg Sigl in Wiener Neustadt. He then returned to Zürich, to become the university assistant of Georg Veith.

#11211

Theophilus P. Chandler Jr.

1845 - 1928 (83 years)

Theophilus Parsons Chandler Jr. was an American architect of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He spent his career at Philadelphia, and is best remembered for his churches and country houses. He founded the Department of Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania , and served as its first head.

#11212

David Joy

1825 - 1903 (78 years)

#11213

John Newton

1823 - 1895 (72 years)

John Newton was a career officer in the United States Army, a Union general in the American Civil War, and Chief of the Corps of Engineers. Early life Newton was born in Norfolk, Virginia, a city his father Thomas Newton, Jr. represented in the U.S. Congress for 31 years. He ranked second in the United States Military Academy class of 1842 and was commissioned in the Corps of Engineers. He taught engineering at the Military Academy and constructed fortifications along the Atlantic coast and Great Lakes . He was a member of a special Gulf Coast defense board and Chief Engineer, Utah Expediti...

#11214

Montgomery Knight

1901 - 1943 (42 years)

Montgomery Knight was an aeronautical engineer who specialized in rotary-wing aircraft. He was the first director of the Guggenheim School of Aeronautics at the Georgia Institute of Technology and a founder of and long-time researcher at the Georgia Tech Research Institute.

#11215

Everard Mott Williams

1915 - 1972 (57 years)

Everard Mott Williams , noted scientist and educator, was born in New Haven, Connecticut. He was the son of Cecil Hayward Williams of Detroit, Michigan and Phyllis Hope Hason of London, England. His paternal grandfather was Rev. Gershom Mott Williams, paternal great-grandfather was General Thomas Williams, and his paternal 2nd great-grandfather was John Biddle, making him a part of the Biddle family.

#11216

Christoph Hehl

1847 - 1911 (64 years)

Christoph Carl Adolf Hehl was a German architect and academic teacher who focused on church buildings. He was professor of medieval architecture at the Technische Hochschule in Berlin. Life and career Born in Kassel, Hehl was the son of the inspector of the Höhere Gewerbeschule there, Johannes Hehl . His brother was Maximilian Emil Hehl. He attended the Gewerbeschule from 1862 to 1866, focused on building . Among his teachers were Georg Gottlob Ungewitter and Paul Zindel. After military service, he studied in England. When he returned, he worked in the architect's office of Edwin Oppler in Hanover, who had been a student of Conrad Wilhelm Hase and Eugène Viollet-le-Duc.

#11217

Theodore D. Wilson

1840 - 1896 (56 years)

Theodore Delavan Wilson was an American naval ship designer, constructor and instructor of naval architecture and shipbuilding. As chief constructor for the Bureau of Construction and Repair from 1882 to 1892, he was in charge of all new warship design for the United States Navy. Through his efforts, the Navy began its transition out of a post–Civil War slump to become a modern naval power. Warships he designed include the pre-dreadnought battleship , whose destruction in Havana, Cuba, in 1898 precipitated the Spanish–American War.

#11218

Peter Joseph Krahe

Peter Joseph Krahe

1758 - 1840 (82 years)

Peter Joseph Krahe was a German architect. He was instrumental in converting the old city walls and fortifications of Braunschweig into a series of parks and other public spaces. Life He was the son of the well-known historical painter Lambert Krahe. In 1775, he became a student at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, which his father had helped to create. At the age of twenty-two, he became the Academy's youngest professor. Thanks to a grant from Elector Karl Theodor in 1782, he was able to spend a year studying in Rome. Upon returning, he set himself up as an architect. The years 1785 and 1786 wer...

#11219

Friedrich Pützer

Friedrich Pützer

1871 - 1922 (51 years)

Friedrich Pützer was a German architect and urban planner. Pützer was born in Aachen. He was known mainly as a Protestant church architect, making numerous constructions or renovations of churches in the Rhine-Main area, particularly in Darmstadt. In 1910 he designed Lutherkirche in Wiesbaden. In 1912 he designed Darmstadt Hauptbahnhof. He died in Frankfurt.

#11220

H. E. Merritt

1899 - 1974 (75 years)

Henry Edward Merritt MBE was a British mechanical engineer who invented the Merritt–Brown triple differential tank transmission that provided greater manoeuvrability to a generation of British tanks, starting with the Churchill in 1939 and continuing into the 1980s. It allowed a tracked vehicle to change direction while on the move with less loss of power than under other steering systems, and to perform a neutral turn on the spot by rotating its tracks in opposite directions. Merritt's invention suited the faster pace of tank warfare of the Second World War, which contrasted with the more st...

#11221

Reinhold Persius

1835 - 1912 (77 years)

Ernst Ludwig Reinhold Persius was a German architect and Prussian building official. Life and work He was the fourth of six children born to the Royal Architect, Ludwig Persius, and his wife Charlotte, née Sello. From 1854 to 1856, he studied at the Bauakademie with Ferdinand von Arnim, graduating as a construction site manager. During that same period, he took classes at the Prussian Academy of Arts with Heinrich Strack and Karl Bötticher. From 1856 to 1860, he worked as a manager for Friedrich August Stüler.

#11222

Robert Seyfarth

Robert Seyfarth

1878 - 1950 (72 years)

Robert Seyfarth was an American architect based in Chicago, Illinois. He spent the formative years of his professional career working for the noted Prairie School architect George Washington Maher. A member of the influential Chicago Architectural Club, Seyfarth was a product of the Chicago School of Architecture.

#11223

F. B. Hinsley

1900 - 1988 (88 years)

Frederick Baden Hinsley left school at the age of 13 and worked in Desford Colliery near Leicester. Encouraged by his mother, he studied at night school and was eventually admitted to study engineering at Birmingham University in 1920. On graduation, he worked in the mining industry, initially in Staffordshire before returning to academia. He worked at Cardiff University and then founded the School of Mining Engineering at the University of Nottingham. He stayed at Nottingham until retirement and remained actively involved as emeritus professor there. His specific area of expertise was mine ventilation and for which his expertise was much in demand around the world.

#11224

Victor Luntz

1840 - 1903 (63 years)

Victor Luntz, was an Austrian architect and Professor. Life and work His father, Andreas Luntz, was a local official. In 1847, the family moved to Vienna where, from 1856 to 1860, he studied at the Polytechnic Institute then, from 1860 to 1864, at the Academy of Fine Arts. He was awarded the academy's Gundel-Prize for excellence in 1862. His primary instructors there were August Sicard von Sicardsburg and Eduard van der Nüll. Later, he worked with Friedrich von Schmidt, who was building the new Vienna City Hall. He also completed an apprenticeship as a stonemason.

#11225

Paul Santorini

1893 - 1986 (93 years)

Paul Santorini was a Greek civil engineer, experimental and theoretical physicist, mathematician, electrical engineer, astronomer, author, and professor. He published over 350 articles and conducted research in the fields of solar energy, wind energy, electromagnetic microwaves as weapons of war, high-frequency electromagnetic waves, high-frequency currents, structural engineering, and hydraulics. Later in life, he wrote papers in the field of the birth of the universe and proposed the multiple successive small bangs theory of the universe. Some of his papers also dealt with mankind and the universe.

#11226

Joseph D. Bronzino

#11227

John Millington

1779 - 1868 (89 years)

John Millington was an English engineer who became an academic in the USA. He was a licensed attorney in England before he began his engineering career. He served as professor of mechanics at the Royal Institution from 1817 to 1829 and in 1825 he delivered the inaugural Royal Institution Christmas Lecture. In 1827, he was announced as Professor of Engineering and the Application of Mechanical Philosophy to the Arts at the new London University , but decided not to take up the position after a dispute with the college over pay. He then worked as an engineer with the Anglo-Mexican Mining Associ...

#11228

Max Burchartz

1887 - 1961 (74 years)

Max Hubert Innocenz Maria Burchartz was a German photographer. Life Max Burchartz was the son of a fabric manufacturer, Otto Burchartz and his wife Maria. After his basic schooling he received training in his father's weaving mill and studied at a textile technical school as well as an art school. He studied advertising and art and in 1907 started studying at an art academy in Düsseldorf, at that time experimenting with impressionism but left the academy to join the First World War. After the War he withdrew to Blankenhain and resumed painting. His paintings reflected the quiet, rural life of...

#11229

Carl Langhein

1872 - 1941 (69 years)

Carl Johannes Louis Langhein was German painter and graphic artist. Life and work He was born to Carl Jacob Martin Langhein , an upholsterer and decorator, and his wife, Louise Catharina Maria née Westphal . In 1880, his father remarried and emigrated to the United States. He stayed behind and began serving an apprenticeship in lithography with the printer, Gustav W. Seitz . Later, he also took drawing courses at a trade school. After leaving Seitz, he worked at the firm of Hans Kohler & Co, in Allgäu.

#11230

Carl Sattler

1877 - 1966 (89 years)

Carl Sattler was a German architect and university lecturer. Life Carlo Sattler was born in Florence. His father, the painter Ernst Sattler, was originally from the Schweinfurt area, but had, like other artists, been drawn to Tuscany. While he was growing up Sattler came under the influence of another German expatriate, the sculptor Adolf Hildebrand .

#11231

Henry Dalton

1847 - Present (179 years)

Henry Clay Dalton was superintendent of the St. Louis City Hospital, Missouri, United States, from 1886 to 1892, and later a professor of abdominal and clinical surgery at Marion Sims College of Medicine . He is noted for being the first American to perform the suturing of the pericardium on record. Spanish surgeon Francisco Romero was documented with performing two successful surgeries in 1801 and French surgeon Dominique Jean Larrey was documented as successfully performing surgery on a woman's pericardium in 1810.

#11232

Venčeslav Poniž

1900 - 1967 (67 years)

Venčeslav Poniž was a Polish engineer. He is best known as the author of welded steel and reinforced concrete projects of inter-war and post-war Poland. Among the best-known of his designs are such landmarks as the Maurzyce Bridge, the Prudential Tower and the Fabryka Samochodów Osobowych car factory. Poniž was born 25 September 1900 in Vipava near Trieste, then in Austria-Hungary. Soon after World War I he started his studies at the Vienna University of Technology, which he continued at the Charles University in Prague and then the Lwów University of Technology in Poland. He graduated in 1...

#11233

Julia Margaret Cameron

Julia Margaret Cameron

1815 - 1879 (64 years)

Julia Margaret Cameron was a British photographer who is considered one of the most important portraitists of the 19th century. She is known for her soft-focus close-ups of famous Victorian men and women, for illustrative images depicting characters from mythology, Christianity, and literature, and for sensitive portraits of men, women and children.

#11234

Franz Xaver Wortmann

1921 - 1985 (64 years)

Franz Xaver Wortmann was a German aerodynamicist. Early life After World War II, Wortmann spent time as a pilot and observer with the German Air Force. He then studied physics in Münster and Stuttgart. After graduating in the field of fluid theory he completed his doctorate as an engineer in 1955. His habilitation followed in 1963.

#11235

George Niemann

1841 - 1912 (71 years)

George Niemann was a German-Austrian architect and archaeologist. From 1860 to 1864 he studied at the Polytechnic Institute in Hannover, then relocated to Vienna, where he worked as an assistant to architect Theophil Hansen. In 1872 he was named professor of architectural theory of design and perspective at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. With Alexander Conze and Otto Benndorf, he conducted archaeological research at Samothrace , and in 1881/82 with Benndorf, he worked at excavation sites in Lycia and Caria . In 1884/85 he participated in Karol Lanckoroński's archaeological expedition to As...

#11236

Adolf Gustav Schneck

1883 - 1971 (88 years)

Adolf Gustav Friedrich Schneck was a German architect and furniture designer as well as a member of the Deutscher Werkbund and teacher at the Bauhaus. He contributed two buildings to the 1927 Weissenhofsiedlung exhibit and has work in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art.

#11237

Jean Welz

1900 - 1975 (75 years)

Jean Welz was a South African artist. Biography Johann Max Friedrich Welz was born in Salzburg, Austria, in 1900, into a family in the picture-framing and gilding trade. Called Hans in his youth, he studied art and architecture, and in 1925 traveled to Paris, and worked with prominent modern architects producing a handful of villas of his own until 1937. It was during this period that he adopted the name Jean.

#11238

Elihu Thomson

1853 - 1937 (84 years)

Elihu Thomson was an English-born American engineer and inventor who was instrumental in the founding of major electrical companies in the United States, the United Kingdom and France. Early life He was born in Manchester, England, on March 29, 1853, but his family moved to Philadelphia in the United States in 1858. Thomson attended Central High School in Philadelphia and graduated in 1870. Thomson took a teaching position at Central, and in 1876, at the age of twenty-three, held the chair of Chemistry. In 1880, he left Central to pursue research in the emerging field of electrical engineerin...

#11239

Anatoly Belyaev

1906 - 1967 (61 years)

Anatoly Ivanovich Belyaev founded the school of metallurgy of light non-ferrous metals and semi-conducting materials. He was Professor of Moscow Institute of Steel and Alloys. He was head of the department of metallurgy of light metals in the Moscow Institute of Non-ferrous Metals and Gold from 1943 to 1963. From 1962 to 1967 he was organizer and head of the chair for producing pure metals and semi-conducting materials in MISIS.

#11240

Gaetano Palumbo

#11241

Léon Bouly

1872 - 1932 (60 years)

Léon Guillaume Bouly was a French inventor who created the word cinematograph. Cinematograph After devising chronophotography devices, Bouly applied a patent on a reversible device of photography and optics for the analysis and synthesis of motions, calling it the Cynématographe Léon Bouly on February 12, 1892. On December 27, 1893, he shortened the name of his device to .

#11242

Heinrich Kohl

1877 - 1914 (37 years)

Heinrich Kohl was a German architectural historian and archaeologist. He took classes in architecture at the technical universities in Munich, Dresden and Berlin. In 1902 he passed the first state examination for Regierungsbauführer, then later passed the second state examination for attaining "government architect" status . Within this time frame he attended lectures on archaeology at the University of Freiburg . In May 1914 he obtained his habilitation in architectural history from the Technical University of Hannover. In 1902-1904, under the guidance of Otto Puchstein and Bruno Schulz, he took part in the excavation at Baalbek.

#11243

Harold Tomlinson

1899 - 1951 (52 years)

Harold Tomlinson was a 20th-century British architect. Tomlinson was based at the University of Cambridge School of Architecture. There he supervised the Scottish architect Frank James Connell. The current ADC Theatre used by the Cambridge University Amateur Dramatic Club in Park Street, central Cambridge, was designed by Harold Tomlinson and W.P. Dyson. It reopened in 1935 after a fire that destroyed the original building in 1933.

#11244

William J. A. Bailey

#11245

Koji Sugioka

#11246

John D. Letcher

John Davidson Letcher was an American academic and an acting president of Oregon State University. He served as the acting president for 4 months in 1892, upon the death of the second president Benjamin Lee Arnold.

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