Johann Georg von Schoen

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Johann Georg Ritter von Schoen , also Schön , (born September 7, 1838 in Venice , † July 11, 1914 in Vienna ) was an Austrian civil engineer and university professor . He was rector of the technical universities in Vienna and Brno .

Life

After attending the Oberrealschule in Vienna-Schottenfeld, Johann Georg Schoen studied at the Imperial and Royal Polytechnic Institute in Vienna from 1856 to 1861 with Adam von Burg and Josef Stummer von Traunfels, among others . From 1860 to 1863 he studied architecture at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna under August Sicard von Sicardsburg and Eduard van der Nüll . From 1861 he was assistant and supplent at the chair for road and hydraulic engineering at the Polytechnic Institute, from 1868 worked as a railway engineer at the kk Südbahn and the Ottoman Railway in the Balkans.

In 1871 he was appointed full professor of hydraulic engineering , road and rail construction at the Technical University in Brno, where he headed the civil engineering school as dean from 1872 to 1874 and 1876 to 1878 and was elected rector in the academic year 1874/75. In Brno he was Vice President of the Moravian Trade Association from 1875 to 1879 and President from 1880 to 1882. For the Moravian Trade Museum, he took over the design and construction management of the museum building completed in 1883. That year he was made an honorary member of the Moravian Trade Association.

From 1882 until his retirement in 1909 he was a full professor for road and hydraulic engineering at the Vienna University of Technology. In the academic year 1885/86 he was elected rector of the Vienna University of Technology . He also taught at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences from 1883 to 1911, and from 1896 he was an honorary lecturer for general hydraulic engineering there.

In 1891 he designed the organizational structure for a central hydrographic state institution in Austria, which was set up in 1893 with the central hydrographic office in the Imperial and Royal Ministry of the Interior .

Johann Georg Schoen wrote one of the first textbooks for tunnel construction . Among other things, he acted as an appraiser in the course of the vaulting of the Wien River , in the planning of ship lifts on the Danube-Moldau-Elbe Canal and in the expansion of the port of Trieste .

In 1878 he became a Councilor and 1900 for Councilor appointed, in 1890, he was ennobled .

Johann Georg Schoen died in 1914 at the age of 75. His father was the railway architect Johann Carl Schoen (1805–1848).

Publications (selection)

  • 1863: Principles of Perspective
  • 1866: The tunnel construction , 2nd edition 1874
  • 1866: Instruction for the manipulations with the barometric height determinations
  • 1910: Brno's water supply

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Johann Carl Schoen in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna
  2. ↑ Schoen (Schön), Johann Carl; actually Carl Borr. (1805-1848), civil servant and railway architect .
personal data
SURNAME Schoen, Johann Georg von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schoen, Johann Georg Ritter von (full name); Fine, Johann Georg von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian civil engineer and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH September 7, 1838
PLACE OF BIRTH Venice
DATE OF DEATH July 11, 1914
Place of death Vienna