Bernhard Hugo Lentz
Bernhard Hugo Lentz (born November 29, 1828 in Hamburg ; † November 4, 1903 ) was a hydraulic engineer and head of the port administration in the Ritzebüttel office .
biography
Lentz was the fourth son of the realtor Ernst Constantin. He attended the Hamburg School of Academics, did a two-year apprenticeship with a Hamburg engineer and took part in preparatory work on the Neumünster-Neustädter Railway. From 1847 to 1850 he studied building science at the polytechnic school in Munich. He designed the Lauenburg railway bridge for the Lübeck-Büchener railway company.
In 1853 he moved to the Hamburg shipping and port deputation , for which he carried out a precision leveling from Hamburg to Cuxhaven from 1854–1855 . In 1858 he became a hydraulic engineering inspector.
In July 1864 he moved to the Cuxhaven hydraulic engineering inspection . His works were the new building of the old love in 1864, 1865 to 1868 the reconstruction of the old port, the relocation and the new building of the Kugelbake, 1866/67 the Kugelbakedamm, 1875 the time ball pillars, 1883 the semaphore and 1892 to 1995 the former new port with the so-called cassions (caissons). In 1902 he retired.
Lentz had been married to Franzisca Lentz, the daughter of the bailiff at Ritzebüttel Castle, Senator August Christian Theodor Meier, since 1861; both had ten children.
Honors
- The Lentzstrasse and the Lentzkai in Cuxhaven got his name.
Publications
- The girder bridges of wrought iron . 1853
- High tide and ebb and the effects of the wind on the sea level . Hamburg, Otto Meissner, 1879
literature
- Reinhart Kühn and Winfried Seifert: Life and Scientific Work of Hugo Lentz
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lentz, Bernhard Hugo |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Lentz; Hugo |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Hydraulic engineering inspector |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 29, 1828 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hamburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 4, 1903 |