Alexandre Fabre

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Alexandre Fabre

Alexandre Fabre ( Russian Александр Фабр ; born November 16, 1782 in Tourrettes , Département Var ; † August 4, 1844 there ) was a French - Russian traffic engineer and university lecturer .

Life

Fabre was the eldest of 6 children of the doctor of medicine and surgeon Jacques Fabre. The father ensured that the son was carefully brought up for the engineering profession, following the example of his successful brother Charles Fabre. After attending various schools, Fabre lost his father during the Revolution , so that now his uncle Charles Fabre looked after him until Fabre entered the Paris École polytechnique in 1801 . He completed two courses in mathematics and technical drawing and then went to the École nationale des ponts et chausséestransferred, which he graduated with honors in 1805. He then worked as an engineer for the general inspector of traffic routes.

When Alexander I was planning to set up an institute for traffic engineering in St. Petersburg , Napoleon I recommended the engineers Pierre-Dominique Bazaine , Fabre, Maurice Destrem and Charles Michel Potier at the meeting in Erfurt in 1809 . The four engineers were then invited to St. Petersburg. In July 1810, Fabre entered the Russian service and was Podpolkownik in the traffic engineer corps with a salary twice that of his salary in France. He was immediately transferred to the reserve and appointed professor of applied mathematics at the Institute of the Transport Engineering Corps that had just been founded. In addition, he was responsible for the canal construction at the St. Petersburg Governor General .

At the beginning of the Franco-Russian War in 1812 , Fabre, like the other three French engineers , was exiled to Yaroslavl , Poschechonje and finally Irkutsk on a simple salary. In view of Fabr's precarious situation, at the request of the Irkutsk administration, he was again granted double his salary.

In 1815 after the war, Fabre was able to return to St. Petersburg, where he accepted Russian citizenship. In the same year he was transferred to the IVth traffic route district. Then he carried out the projects for the construction of the ports of Taganrog and Mariupol and also the leveling of the Manych river . He became a member of a St. Petersburg Masonic Lodge. In 1818 he was sent to Moscow to hang four bells in the Ivan the Great bell tower . In 1820 he was promoted to major general. In 1827 he became a member of the Council for Military Settlements of the Imperial General Staff . In 1831 he was transferred to the engineering corps of the military settlements. In 1833 he was dismissed from service due to illness.

Honors

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Фабр, Александр Яковлевич . In: Русский биографический словарь А. А. Половцова . tape 21 , 1901, pp. 3-4 .
  2. ↑ Соколовский Е .: 50- летие института и корпуса инженеров путей сообщения . St. Petersburg 1859, p. 94 .
  3. ↑ Серков А. И .: Русское масонство. 1731-2000 гг . Российская политическая энциклопедия, Moscow 2001.
personal data
SURNAME Fabre, Alexandre
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Фабр, Александр (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French traffic engineer and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH November 16, 1782
PLACE OF BIRTH Department Var
DATE OF DEATH 4th August 1844
Place of death France