Gabriel de Rumine
Gabriel de Rumine (born January 16, 1841 in Lausanne , † June 18, 1871 in Bucharest , legal domicile from 1862 in Lausanne) was a Russian - Swiss civil engineer and founder.
Life
Gabriel de Rumine enjoyed home tuition with Charles-Théophile Gaudin and studied at the Académie de Lausanne from 1859 . From 1861 he attended the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne and in 1864 became a civil engineer . He was a member of the Swiss Zofinger Association . In 1862 he founded the Lausanne Industrial Museum with his mother.
Even before his trip to Constantinople, he bequeathed a foundation to Lausanne with which she later built the Palais de Rumine . First the university was housed there, later the cantonal and university libraries , lecture halls and various museums.
De Rumine died at the age of 30 on June 18, 1871 in Bucharest and was buried on September 3 of the same year in the Cimetière de Montoie in Lausanne. The grave still exists today (as of November 2017).
Web links
- Fabienne Abetel-Béguelin: Gabriel de Rumine. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
Individual evidence
- ^ Robert Savary: Gabriel de Rumine. In: Find a Grave . November 11, 2017, accessed October 23, 2019 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Rumine, Gabriel de |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian-Swiss civil engineer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 16, 1841 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lausanne |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 18, 1871 |
| Place of death | Bucharest |