Hugo Seidler

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Hugo Seidler (born March 29, 1866 in Pressburg , † October 22, 1953 in Mauer near Vienna ) was an Austrian mechanical engineer and university professor . He was rector of the Vienna University of Technology .

Life

Hugo Seidler studied mechanical engineering at the Technical University in Prague , where he worked as an assistant for four years. He then worked as a designer at Prager Maschinenbau AG (previously Ruston & Co), went to Budapest as chief engineer at Nicholson'schen Maschinenfabriks AG and was director of the Leobersdorfer Maschinenfabrik .

From 1902 he was a designer at the Technical University of Vienna and from 1903 honorary lecturer. In 1904 he was appointed associate professor and in 1909 full professor for machine elements , steam boiler and container construction. In the academic years 1911/12 and 1912/13 as well as 1915/16 and 1916/17 he was the dean of the mechanical engineering school. In 1922 he was appointed councilor . In the academic year 1926/27 he was elected rector of the Vienna University of Technology . At the Technical University of Vienna he set up a laboratory for heat engines , which was opened in a new building during his rectorate on the site of the former kuk war school on Getreidemarkt . In 1935 he retired . In 1936 he was awarded the Commander's Cross of the Austrian Order of Merit .

He died in 1953 at the age of 87.

literature

  • Juliane Mikoletzky, Sabine Plakolm-Forsthuber (editor): A Collection of Extraordinary Completeness / A Collection of Unusual Completeness: Die Rektorengalerie der Technische Universität Wien / The Gallery of Rectors of the TU Wien . Festschrift 200 years of the Technical University of Vienna, Volume 13, Vienna, Böhlau-Verlag 2015, ISBN 978-3-205-20113-7 , page 107

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ List of the estate of the Austrian National Library: Hugo Seidler, mechanical engineer . Retrieved April 14, 2016.
  2. ↑ Staff news . In:  Salzburger Chronik with the illustrated supplement “Oesterreichische Woche” , July 24, 1936, p. 5 (online at ANNO ).Template: ANNO / Maintenance / sch
personal data
SURNAME Seidler, Hugo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian mechanical engineer and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH March 29, 1866
PLACE OF BIRTH Pressburg
DATE OF DEATH October 22, 1953
Place of death Wall near Vienna