Karl Bader (engineer)

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Karl Franz Josef Bader (born December 9, 1796 in Freiburg im Breisgau ; † June 19, 1874 there ) was a German engineer and Catholic publicist .

The son of a Freiburger Stadtphysicus , studied Bader after the visit of Freiburg Lyceum medicine at the University of Freiburg and 1818 for Dr. med. PhD . During his studies in 1818 he became a member of the old Freiburg fraternity . During further studies in Berlin he was arrested in 1819 and sentenced to six years imprisonment in a fortress by the Higher Regional Court in Breslau in 1824 for “participating in fraternity activities” . After his pardon in 1827, he went to Göttingen , where he studied natural sciences and surveying in 1828 . After a stay at the engineering school in Paris , he passed his state examination as an engineer and in 1832 became professor of road and hydraulic engineering and geodesy at the Polytechnic in Karlsruhe , of which he was director from 1840 to 1845. From 1840 he was a member of the Headquarters for Water and Road Construction and worked as a fire brigade commander. In 1850 he was given early retirement and returned to Freiburg.

Bader wrote numerous writings on church politics, including a. for the " historical-political papers for Catholic Germany ", partly under the pseudonym Balderich Frank .

Fonts (selection)

  • The Catholic Church in the Grand Duchy of Baden. Herder, Freiburg 1860 ( digitized version ).
  • The duties of the Catholics of Germany and Austria in their position on the German question and on the Austrian constitution . Herder, Freiburg 1862.

literature

  • Friedrich von Weech: Karl Bader . In: Badische Biographien Vol. 2, Heidelberg 1875, pp. 549-551 ( digitized version ).
  • Karl H. Salzmann:  Bader, Karl. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 1, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1953, ISBN 3-428-00182-6 , p. 512 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I Politicians, Part 1: A – E. Heidelberg 1996, pp. 40-41.

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personal data
SURNAME Bader, Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bader, Karl Franz Josef (full name); Bader, Carl; Frank, Balderich (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German engineer and Catholic publicist
DATE OF BIRTH December 9, 1796
PLACE OF BIRTH Freiburg in Breisgau
DATE OF DEATH June 19, 1874
Place of death Freiburg in Breisgau