Julius Magg (technician)

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Julius Magg (born November 25, 1884 in Wilten ; died May 5, 1931 in Graz ) was an Austrian engineer and university professor whose work made a significant contribution to the further development of the diesel engine . He is considered to be the founder of the Graz School of Engine Construction.

Life

Magg was born into a civil servant family. He studied at the mechanical engineering department of the Graz University of Technology and the philosophical faculty of the University of Berlin. He graduated with honors. In 1907 he received his doctorate. in technical sciences and initially worked at Andritzer Maschinenfabrik Graz and at Hantel and Lueg in Düsseldorf. In 1910 he returned to Graz and was a private lecturer for theoretical machine theory, in 1911 he took up the professorship for thermodynamics as a substitute.

In Vöcklabruck he met Charlotte Horzeyschny, who started studying geography and history in Graz. Julius Magg married Charlotte in Vöcklabruck in 1910. The couple had no biological children, but adopted a son in 1924. At the time of the First World War, Magg was commissioned to build a steel mill, although he would have preferred to become a pilot. From 1920 he held a chair for internal combustion engines and thermodynamics at the Technical University of Graz, where he was involved in planning the new building for the faculty of mechanical engineering, in which he set up a laboratory for internal combustion engines. During this time Magg and his wife lived on Parkstrasse in Geidorf . In 1930 Magg suffered a stroke, as a result of which he had to stop working on a diesel engine under development. Magg died on May 5, 1931 as a result of his stroke. The work on Magg's research was continued by Hans List , among others . Magg's estate is kept in the Styrian regional archive.

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