Julius Wilhelm Gintl

Julius Wilhelm Gintl (born November 12, 1804 in Prague , † December 22, 1883 in Prague) was an Austrian physicist and engineer who was instrumental in building the Austrian telegraph network .

Gintl studied in Prague and Vienna . From 1831 he was an associate professor in Vienna and from 1836 a full professor of physics and applied mathematics at the University of Graz , where in 1846 he also received the chair of natural history. In 1847 Gintl was appointed as kk telegraph construction inspector to Vienna , where he supervised and managed the installation and establishment of the first Austrian telegraph lines. In 1850 he was appointed telegraph director at the General Directorate of Communications for Austria. In this function he drove the development of the Austrian telecommunications system.

In 1849 he developed a portable telegraph device that could be used on railroad trains. In 1853 he built a telegraph based on galvanic elements . He also showed the technical possibilities of conducting calls in both directions on a telegraph line. For this he received the great gold medal of honor at the Paris World Exhibition in 1855 . He was also a member of the Imperial Academy of Sciences in Vienna .

Julius Wilhelm Gintl died in Prague on December 22, 1883.

Fonts

• Measuring altitude with a thermometer. Heubner, Vienna 1835 digitized

literature

• Gintl Julius Wilhelm. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 1, Publishing House of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1957, p. 443 f. (Direct links on p. 443 , p. 444 ).
• Heinz Hudler:  Gintl, Wilhelm. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 6, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1964, ISBN 3-428-00187-7 , p. 403 f. ( Digitized version ).