Eugène Mougel
Dieudonné Eugène Mougel , often called Mougel Bey (born November 27, 1808 in Châtel-sur-Moselle , † November 27, 1890 in Paris ), was a French hydraulic engineer .
Even during his school days in the small town of Châtel in the Vosges Mountains, Mougel showed a great gift for mathematics. At the boarding school in Mirecourt he received an emphasis on mathematics. At the age of twenty he was accepted into the École polytechnique , which he graduated from in 1830. In the July Revolution he participated as aide-de-camp of Lafayette . In 1831 he began his work in the French building administration with work in the port of Fécamp . Then he was sent to Egypt dispatched to the reign of Muhammad Ali Pasha , the Arsenal of Alexandria finish. In recognition of his achievement, he received the title of Bey ; in France he was made a Knight of the Legion of Honor in 1844.
In 1843 he was commissioned by Muhammad Ali Pascha with the construction of the Delta Barrages , the project of two weirs over the two arms of the Nile north of Cairo , which Linant de Bellefonds had started in 1833, but was soon to be discontinued. Mougel-Bey carried out his own new design of the structure from 1847. The project was interrupted several times for various reasons and finally ended in 1861.
At that time, Viceroy Muhammad Said had already granted Ferdinand de Lesseps the concession to build the Suez Canal and, at his suggestion, commissioned Linant de Bellefonds and Mougel Bey to draw up a memorandum in which the canal was outlined and an initial rough cost estimate was made. This memorandum of 1855 was then submitted to the International Commission on the Penetration of the Isthmus of Suez , which took into account the proposals of its members, including a. by Alois Negrelli , who laid the final route of the Suez Canal. Mougel Bey was appointed project manager for the construction of the canal, which began in 1859. Due to disagreements within the Suez Canal Society , Mougel resigned in 1861 and retired to Paris.
Individual evidence
- ↑ The information in this article is largely based on the biography of Dieudonné Eugène Mougel dit Mougel-Bey by Georges Poull on écriVOGES
- ↑ He should not be confused with Mougel Bey (* 1832 in La Bresse (Vosges), † 1918 in Biarritz), director of the École normal in Cairo (from 1880), appointed Bey in 1882, director of the Institut Égyptien in Paris (from 1885 ?); see. VIAF
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| SURNAME | Mougel, Eugène |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Mougel Bey; Mougel, Dieudonné Eugène (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French hydraulic engineer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 27, 1808 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Châtel-sur-Moselle |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 27, 1890 |
| Place of death | Paris |