Henri de Dion
Comte Joseph-Louis Henri de Dion (born December 23, 1828 in Montfort-l'Amaury , † April 13, 1878 in Paris ) was a French civil engineer (steel construction).
He was trained in Switzerland and at the École Centrale des Arts et Manufactures (1848 to 1851). He then built the Langon Bridge with Eugène Flachat and with his brother Joseph-Louis-Adolphe he was involved in the restoration of the Bayeux Cathedral (1854). He built several iron bridges in Spain and a train station in Madrid (Station de las Delicias) and a sugar factory in Guadeloupe (1862). In 1870 he returned to Paris to take part in the defense. He became an officer of the Legion of Honor for building entrenchments near Champigny under enemy fire .
He headed the Conservatoire des Arts et Métiers and was a statics professor at the École Centrale d'Architecture. Gustave Eiffel was one of his students.
In 1877 he became president of the French Civil Engineering Society.
In 1878 he was responsible for various iron hall constructions at the World Exhibition in Paris, but died before it was completed. Parts of it were later reused in an airship hangar in Meudon ( Hangar Y , it still exists today), another part as a hall in Cardinet, which was demolished by the city of Paris in 2008, in Belfort and on the Bassin de la Vilette in Paris .
He is one of the 72 names on the Eiffel Tower .
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| SURNAME | Dion, Henri de |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Dion, Joseph-Louis Henri de (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French Comte, civil engineer, university director and professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 23, 1828 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Montfort-l'Amaury |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 13, 1878 |
| Place of death | Paris |