Adolf von Gizycki

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Adolf von Gizycki

Adolf von Gizycki (* December 8, 1834 in Königsberg ; † May 13, 1891 in Aachen ) was a German mechanical engineer and rector of RWTH Aachen University .

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After graduating from high school, Gizycki began studying mathematics at the Albertus University in Königsberg . There he became a member of the Germania fraternity in the summer semester of 1854 . In 1856 he moved to the royal industrial institute in Berlin , now the Technical University of Berlin , where he studied mechanical engineering and graduated in 1859 with an engineering degree . From 1864 he was taken on here both as an assistant and later as a lecturer at the new trade academy of this TH.

In 1870 Gizycki accepted a call to the newly opened Polytechnic Aachen, today's RWTH Aachen, where he was taken on as a full professor for theoretical machine theory and kinematics according to the Reuleaux system . He stayed here until his death in 1891 and in the meantime headed the university from 1880 to 1883 as the successor to August von Kaven, who had been in office since it opened and had an unlimited term, as its rector. He was then elected to the Senate for several years.

Gizycki was the first rector of this university, who was elected for three years according to a new constitutional statute of August 27, 1880. Ten years after the start of teaching, he played a key role in the further structural and organizational development of the university. During this time, new diploma examination regulations, new admission regulations for private lecturers and new habilitation regulations were drawn up. He was also responsible for the establishment of a new mining department and three new chairs: for mining science , mine separation and measuring art and later for electrical engineering including a new electrical engineering laboratory. In this way, the polytechnic was able to face the new requirements in this phase of high industrialization in Germany and thus also significantly increase the number of students.

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  • The Aachen district association of the VDI 1856-1906 , Aachen 1906, p. 57f.

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SURNAME Gizycki, Adolf von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gizycki, Adolf Ernst Leopold von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German mechanical engineer and rector of RWTH Aachen
DATE OF BIRTH December 8, 1834
PLACE OF BIRTH Koenigsberg
DATE OF DEATH May 13, 1891
Place of death Aachen