Eduard Dolezal

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Eduard Dolezal, painting by Eduard Veith (1909)

Eduard Dolezal (also Doležal ) (born March 2, 1862 in Mährisch Budwitz , † July 7, 1955 in Baden ) was an Austrian geodesist .

Life

Eduard Dolezal, son of the weaver Franz (1830–1902) and Eleonore Dolezal (1832–1920), studied mathematics, physics and descriptive geometry at the Technical University of Vienna and the University of Vienna after having passed the Matura . After completing his studies, Dolezal took on an assistant position for practical geometry with Anton Schell at the Technical University in Vienna in 1887. Two years later he switched to the newly founded Technical Middle School in Sarajevo , where he specifically taught performing and practical geometry. In 1896 he returned to the Vienna University of Technology as a designer. Here he was entrusted with holding lectures on photogrammetry for the first time as a substitute for Anton Schell . Theodor Scheimpflug was also one of his students .

In 1899, Dolezal followed a call to the chair of performing and practical geometry, later practical geometry and marrow sheath studies at the Montanic University in Leoben . In 1905 he accepted an offer for the full professorship for low geodesy at the Vienna University of Technology, which he held until his retirement in 1930. From 1907 to 1908 he was dean and from 1908 to 1909 rector.

Eduard Dolezal - he is considered the founder of modern Austrian surveying - founded the Österreichische Gesellschaft für Photogrammetrie in 1907 and the International Society for Photogrammetry in 1910. From 1908 to 1923 he edited the International Archive for Photogrammetry and from 1907 to 1938 the Austrian Journal for Surveying .

Organizationally significant were his participation in the reform of the mining studies, his reform of geodetic teaching at the technical universities in Austria and the creation of separate departments for surveying, the centralization of state surveying and the creation of the Federal Office for Metrology and Surveying , which is responsible for geodetic measurements , includes the triangulation , the basic cadastre and the topographical land survey.

Like other lecturers, Dolezal campaigned against women's studies around 1910 , in 1943 he was one of the operators of the installation of a Lueger memorial plaque on the occasion of Lueger's 100th birthday, which was unveiled on October 24, 1944. The installation during the National Socialist era is interpreted in this way that Lueger's open anti-Semitism and its role model effect for Adolf Hitler could have played an important role in the installation of this plaque during this period.

Eduard Dolezal is buried in the Helenenfriedhof in Baden near Vienna .

Honors

Eduard Dolezal was the recipient of numerous Austrian and international awards, including several honorary doctorates and in 1942 the Goethe Medal for Art and Science . Dolezal was admitted to the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina in 1918 , to the Spanish Academy of Sciences in 1924 and to the Austrian Academy of Sciences in 1942 . In his memory, the Eduard Dolezal Award was launched under the leadership of Karl Kraus , which is given to people from developing or reforming countries in order to enable them to take part in the ISPRS congress , which takes place every four years .

In 1971 Dolezalgasse in Vienna- Floridsdorf was named after him.

Fonts

  • The application of photography in practical measuring art, In: Edition 22 of Encyklopädie der Photographie, Verlag Wilhelm Knapp, Halle / Saale, 1896
  • Paganini's photogrammetric instruments and apparatus for the reconstruction of photogrammetric recordings, Verlag Administration der Zeitschrift: Der Mechaniker, Berlin, 1899
  • With Simon Stampfer : Theoretical and practical instructions for leveling, With 86 text figures, 10th edition, Verlag Carl Gerold's Sohn, Vienna, 1902
  • With Friedrich Hartner : Manual and textbook of lower geodesy, LW Seidel & Sohn, Vienna, 1903/1904
  • The backward incision on the sphere, solved photogrammetrically, Alfred Hölder Verlag, Vienna, 1915
  • The pantograph planimeter, Alfred Hölder Verlag, Vienna, 1915
  • With Simon Stampfer: Six-digit logarithmic trigonometric tables with auxiliary tables, an appendix and instructions for using the tables, 22nd edition, Verlag Carl Gerold's Sohn, Vienna, 1919
  • Five-digit logarithmic goniometric tables, school edition , LW Seidel & Sohn, Vienna, 1922

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Theodor Scheimpflug, kuk captain and captain long voyage ( Memento from May 13, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 64 kB) an obituary by Eduard Dolezal accessed on December 5, 2011
  2. ^ Eduard Dolezal in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna
  3. ↑ a b Vienna's street names since 1860 as “Political Places of Remembrance” (PDF; 4.4 MB), p. 264f, final research project report, Vienna, July 2013
personal data
SURNAME Dolezal, Eduard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian geodesic
DATE OF BIRTH March 2, 1862
PLACE OF BIRTH Moravian Budwitz
DATE OF DEATH July 7, 1955
Place of death to bathe