Andrei Danilowitsch Gotman

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Andrei Danilowitsch Gotman ( Russian Андрей Данилович Готман ; * 1790 in the Russian Empire , † 1865 in Dresden ) was a Russian engineer and university professor .

Life

Gotman came from an English family. In 1810 he entered the newly founded Institute of the Transport Engineers Corps in St. Petersburg (now St. Petersburg State University of Transport) to study. During the Franco-Russian War of 1812 , 12 of the 16 students on the class Gotmans were sent to the army, while Gotman stayed with the other three students at the Institute for Labor in St. Petersburg. Gotman helped build the bridge to Kamenny Island, which opened in late August 1813.

In 1813 Gotman was appointed professor of drawing and architecture at the Institute of the Transport Engineers Corps. In 1816, on the initiative of Agustín de Betancourt in St. Petersburg, the hydraulic engineering committee was formed with Gotman as a member. Gotman led the work on the Obvodny Canal and on the construction of the Admiralty . 1819-1823 he was busy with the construction of the building for the Institute of Transport Engineers. According to Gotman's plans, a drainage canal was built on Kamenny Island and a dike was built on Jelagin Island . In 1826 Gotman was appointed managing director of the 1st traffic route district, which included the Ladoga Canal , the Vyshni-Volotschok waterway system, the Volga from Tver to Rybinsk and the roads to Moscow and other cities.

Gotman was then transferred to Odessa to lead construction work in the ports on the Black Sea , the Sea of ​​Azov and the Don .

In 1834 Gotman was transferred back to St. Petersburg as lieutenant general in the traffic engineering corps . In 1836 he became director of the Institute of the Transport Engineering Corps as the successor to Charles Michel Potier . Gotman was also involved in many major buildings, such as St. Isaac's Cathedral , the reconstruction of the Winter Palace , which burned down in 1837 , the Anichkov Bridge and the Nikolai Bridge , the St. Petersburg Arsenal and the building of the Ministry of Finance. Gotman was director of the institute of the traffic engineering corps only until 1843. His successor was Valerian von Engelhardt , who introduced a stricter order.

Gotman died in Dresden with the rank of engineer general.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Tannenbaum AS : Готман (Андрей Данилович) . In: Brockhaus-Efron . tape IX , 1893, p. 433 ( Wikisource [accessed July 17, 2018]).
  2. ↑ a b А. P. Kupaygorodskaya: RAILWAY UNIVERSITY (accessed July 17, 2018).
  3. ↑ a b c Saint Petersburg Encyclopaedia: Gotman Andrey Danilovich architect (accessed July 17, 2018).
  4. ^ Baltic Historical Commission (ed.): Entry on Engelhardt, Valerian Johann Bar. V .. In: BBLD - Baltic biographical lexicon digital
personal data
SURNAME Gotman, Andrei Danilowitsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Готман, Андрей Данилович (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian engineer and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH 1790
DATE OF DEATH 1865
Place of death Dresden