János Feketeházy
János Feketeházy [ ˈjaːnoʃ ˈfɛkɛtɛhaːzi ] (born May 16, 1842 in Vágsellye , today Šaľa in Slovakia; † October 31, 1927 ibid) was a Hungarian construction technician.
Life
The railway engineer Feketeházy came from Vágsellye, where he grew up with five siblings and completed elementary school. His father was Czech and was originally called Černohaus , the name was later Magyarized. He graduated from high school in Tyrnau . He then studied at the Polytechnic Institute in Vienna and at the ETH Zurich , where he graduated as an engineer in 1866. During his internship he worked on the planning of the Stadlauer Bridge in Vienna and the Bosporus Canal .
After the Austro-Hungarian equalization , he returned to Hungary and went to Budapest in 1873 .
In 1878 he won a prize at the World Exhibition in Paris for his new steel construction methods for the Danube bridges.
In the years up to 1892 he was chief engineer at the Hungarian railway company MÁV , where he then retired. He spent this again in his native town of Šaľa, as it was called in the meantime. His leg had to be amputated after an accident. After his death he was buried in the family grave.
Works
Feketeházy itself is much less well known than his buildings, which he planned in the second half of the 19th century. This includes some bridges over the Danube . All of the MÁV's railway bridges up to 1912 are based on his plans. Other buildings such as high-rise railway structures also bear his signature. His construction of turntables and defense bridges is also widespread outside of Hungary . Notes on his curriculum vitae have been preserved from his handwritten notes.
selection
- 1870–1874 - Roof construction of the main customs office, today's Corvinus University Budapest
- 1873–1876 - Southern railway bridge over the Danube in Budapest
- 1881–1883 - Road bridge (Belvárosi híd) over the Tisza in Szeged
- 1884 - Roof construction of the Hungarian State Opera
- 1884 - Roof construction of the Budapest Ostbahnhof together with the architect Gyula Rochlitz
- 1891–1892 - Elisabeth Bridge between Komárom and Komárno
- 1893–1895 - Maria Valeria Bridge in Esztergom
- 1894–1896 - Liberty Bridge in Budapest, then the Franz Joseph Bridge
- ? - Swing bridge in Fiume
- Railway bridge over the Tisza in Szolnok
Appreciation
In his native town of Šaľa there is also a memorial room in the Magyar Ház ("House of Hungary") named after him . There are two memorial plaques on the town hall. In Budapest a street near the Technical University bears his name. In 2008 a statue was erected in Szeged , which stands in the engineering pantheon.
literature
- Magyar életrajzi lexikon 1967, 468 ( hungarian )
- Novák, V. 1997: Ján Feketeházy - konštruktér, staviteľ , Šaľa. (Slovak.)
- Novák, V. (Szerk.) 2002: Vágsellye 1002–2002 , Zsolna. (Hungarian.)
- Novák, V. 2007: Feketeházy János 1842–1927 , Šaľa. (Hungarian.)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Innovators and Innovations ( Memento from June 15, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) by László Sipka, accessed on February 19, 2010
- ^ Ostbahnhof , accessed on February 18, 2010
- ↑ Text with photos on the website of the Sellyei Ifjúsági Klub (Hungarian) , accessed on February 20, 2010
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Feketeházy, János |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Hungarian construction technician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 16, 1842 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vágsellye , today Šaľa, Slovakia |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 31, 1927 |
| Place of death | Šaľa , Slovakia |