Adrian Daninos

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Adrian Daninos or Adrien , Adrianos , (born April 1, 1887 in Alexandria , † September 23, 1976 in Cairo ) was a Greek-Egyptian agricultural engineer.

biography

Daninos was born in Alexandria as the son of the archaeologist Albert Daninos-Pacha and his wife Athina. He studied agronomy and law in France (where his cousins Jean Daninos and Pierre Daninos also lived) and returned to Egypt after completing his studies.

He first worked on electrification and the construction of a dam in Aswan in 1912. With his father's inheritance of 100,000 pounds, which he received after his death in 1925, he financed the development of the project. He hoped that this would change the standard of living and the fate of the Egyptian people. In 1940 he came into contact with hydrologists who had carried out projects on the upper reaches of the Nile.

In 1947 he developed the idea for a project for a single large dam above Aswan, a year later he presented the project to the Egyptian government, which, however, did not show much interest. He made contact with officers close to Nasser . They passed the plans on, and on July 30, 1952, four days after the fall of Faruq , the plans were seriously discussed. Construction of the Aswan Dam finally began in early 1960 .

Forgotten and impoverished, Adrian Daninos died as a result of an accident at the age of 89.