Adolf Thiem

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Adolf Thiem (around 1900)

Adolf Thiem (* 21st February 1836 in Legnica , † 2. May 1908 in Leipzig ) was a German hydrologist and hydraulic engineering - engineering , who as founder of scientific Groundwater Research applies.

Life

Thiem attended secondary school in Liegnitz and then began to learn gas and water as an autodidact . Even though the term hydrology was not yet in use at the time, Adolf Thiem created the scientific basis for this subject, especially for groundwater supply. In 1878 he created the second hydrological map of the world with the Leipzig groundwater map.

Adolf Thiem was head of various facilities, such as the Liegnitz gasworks , and at that time the initiator of ultra-modern water supply systems such as the waterworks of the city of Leipzig in Naunhof .

Marked by idealism and research committed renounced Thiem consistently to an application of his inventions to patent . In 1886, in recognition of his services, he was appointed (Royal Saxon) building officer.

Thiem died in 1908 and was buried in a grave of honor in Leipzig's southern cemetery. A street in Leipzig has been named after him since 1912.

Fonts

  • The water supply for the city of Leipzig. Preliminary project on behalf of the council and the city council. Leipzig 1879.
  • The waterworks of the city of Leipzig. Explanatory report. Munich 1883.
  • Report on the water supply in the suburbs of Leipzig. Bär & Hermann, Leipzig 1889.
  • Report on the hydrological investigations of the area near Böhlitz-Ehrenberg and the western part of the Naunhofer state forest. Bär & Hermann, Leipzig 1890.
  • Explanatory report on the project of water supply systems in the extended urban area on the right of the Pleiße. Bär & Hermann, Leipzig 1890.
  • Groundwater flows. In: Leipzig and its buildings. Gebhardt, Leipzig 1892, pp. 21–31.
  • The water supply. In: Leipzig and its buildings. Gebhardt, Leipzig 1892, pp. 572-583.
  • Report on the preparatory work to expand the water supply for the city of Leipzig. Leipzig 1906.
  • The waterworks of the city of Nuremberg, project on behalf of the two community colleges, Leipzig 1879

literature

  • Paul-Gerhard Franke, Adolf Kleinschroth: Short biographies hydraulics and hydraulic engineering. Personalities from the German-speaking area. Lipp, Munich 1991, ISBN 3-87490-517-9 , p. 360.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Paul-Gerhard Franke, Adolf Kleinschroth: Short biographies of hydraulics and hydraulic engineering. Personalities from the German-speaking area. Lipp, Munich 1991, ISBN 3-87490-517-9 , p. 360.
  2. ↑ Herfried Apel: Where did I come from? Where did i go Self-published, 2008, 1st part, pp. 8–11.
personal data
SURNAME Thiem, Adolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German hydraulic engineer and hydrologist
DATE OF BIRTH February 21, 1836
PLACE OF BIRTH Liegnitz
DATE OF DEATH May 2, 1908
Place of death Leipzig