Georg Rebhann

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Georg Rebhann Ritter von Aspernbruck, painting made posthumously in 1893 by Wenzel Ottokar Noltsch
Bust of Georg Rebhann Ritter von Aspernbruck in front of the Vienna University of Technology

Georg Rebhann Ritter von Aspernbruck (born April 7, 1824 in Vienna , † August 29, 1892 in Altaussee ) was an Austrian civil engineer , professor and rector of the Vienna University of Technology . Under his direction, the Aspern Bridge was built as a chain bridge over the Danube Canal from 1863 to 1864 .

Life

Georg Rebhann attended secondary school and then studied at the kk Polytechnisches Institut in Vienna with Adam von Burg , Johann Philipp Neumann and Simon Stampfer, among others . He also studied astronomy at the University of Vienna .

From 1843 to 1868 he was a civil servant in the State Building Service of the Ministry of the Interior. Initially he worked in the Gubernial building department in Lemberg . From 1850 he was an engineer assistant, in 1851 he became an engineer in the section for road, water and bridge construction of the General Building Department. In 1856 he became an engineer and in 1858 a senior engineer in the Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Public Works. In 1868 Rebhann ended his state building work as a building officer. Among other things, the hydrotechnical Danube map Passau-Orsowa was created under his supervision.

In 1852 he completed his habilitation at the Polytechnic Institute for Building Mechanics, and in 1855 he received his doctorate at the Justus Liebig University in Giessen . In 1861 he became adjunct professor, in 1863 associate professor and in 1868 finally full professor for structural mechanics and theory of bridge construction at the Polytechnic Institute. Rebhann was dean of the civil engineering school in the academic years 1870/71, 1881/82 and 1884/85 to 1887/88. In the academic year 1882/83 he was elected rector of the Polytechnic Institute, which was converted into a technical college in 1872.

Rebhann wrote the two-volume standard work Higher Engineering . In 1871 he formulated the "Rebhann'schen sentence" about the earth pressure on retaining and lining walls .

buildings

Aspern Bridge in the 1870s
  • 1856–57: Reconstruction of the Leitmeritz Elbe Bridge
  • 1857–59: Construction of roads, bridges and torrent control structures near Pontafel in the Canal Valley
  • 1861: Reconstruction of the Fiuman lattice bridge
  • 1863–64: Construction of the Aspern Bridge as a chain bridge

Awards

Fonts

  • 1850: Graphical determination of the earth pressure on lining walls and their resistance . Allgemeine Bauzeitung 15, 1850, pp. 193–199.
  • 1856: Theory of wood and iron constructions: with special consideration for the building industry . Gerold, Vienna 1856.
  • 1856–1871: Higher engineering sciences. (2 volumes)
  • 1862: Notes on some parallel experiments with the Austrian Portland cement from the Perlmoos factory etc. Allgemeine Bauzeitung 27, 1862, pp. 258–263
  • 1863: Results from the parallel tests carried out in 1862 with the Austrian Portland cement etc. Journal of the Austrian Association of Engineers and Architects 15, 1863, pp. 1–8, 146–149, 196–199.
  • 1868: Construction mechanics , compiled after lectures at the kk polytechnic institute Vienna, 1868
  • 1870: Theory of bridge construction , compiled after lectures at the kk polytechnic institute Vienna, edited by A. Pellion and A. Schwarzel, 1870.
  • 1871: Theory of earth pressure and the lining walls.
  • 1873: Lectures on building mechanics , edited by M. Pechatschek, 1873.
  • 1880: Normal profiles of the clear space, load tables and types of shaped iron etc. , published by F. Grobben, 1880.
  • 1883: The engineering subject in general and the basic building construction teachings in particular . Annual report on the academic year 1881/82 of the Vienna University of Technology, 1883, p. 33 ff.

literature

Web links

Commons : Georg Rebhann  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Frank [zu Döfering], Karl Friedrich von: Alt-Österreichisches Adels-Lexikon. Volume 1 (1823–1918), self-published, Vienna 1928, p. 250, entry number 7476.
  2. ↑ Rebhan monument in Vienna History Wiki of the city of Vienna
personal data
SURNAME Rebhann, Georg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rebhann Ritter von Aspernbruck, Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian civil engineer and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH April 7, 1824
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH August 29, 1892
Place of death Altaussee