Károly Maderspach
Károly Maderspach , also Karl Madersbacher (born August 3, 1791 in Orawitz , Holy Roman Empire , † August 23, 1849 in Ruskberg , Austrian Empire ), was an Austrian metallurgical engineer .
Life
Maderspach was the son of the royal mine manager Johann Maderspach. He attended high school in Lugosch and Timisoara . Maderspach studied at the Bergakademie Schemnitz from 1811 and then entered the civil service. Later he was administrator of the royal hammer mill in Milova at Conop and tester in Orawitz.
Anton Hofmann, manager of the hammer mill in Ruskberg, had excavated a lead ore deposit in Ruskberg and sent some samples to Maderspach for analysis. The tested galena proved to have a high silver content, after which Maderspach, together with the brothers Anton, Adam Zacharias and Ernst Hofmann, decided to exploit this deposit. In 1823 they founded the Karl Maderspach and Hofmann brothers' union , which acquired the hammer mill from the Austrian state and agreed with the state forests of the military border that it would be used for ore exploitation for 90 years. In Ruskberg they built a lead smelter . At Maderspach's instigation, the exploitation of the iron ore, which also occurs, was included in the company, so that a blast furnace, a foundry and mechanical workshops were built here. Another blast furnace and the Ferdinandsberg hammer mill were added later. Around 1840, Károly Maderspach initiated the exploration of the coal deposits in the Schiltal .
Maderspach also dealt with the design and manufacture of arch and suspension bridges , of which he executed a total of four:
- 1833 near Lugosch via Timisoara (in operation until 1896)
- 1837 at Herkulesbad across the Cernsa (40 meter span)
- 1839 in Ruskberg across the Bistra (36 meter span)
- 1842 in Caransebesch via Timisoara (in operation until 1902)
During the Hungarian War of Independence in the course of the Hungarian Revolution of 1848/1849 , his company supplied cannons and projectiles for the army of the Hungarian revolutionaries under General Józef Bem . Maderspach was also in contact with Lajos Kossuth , the leader of the Hungarian independence movement. After the decisive battle near Temesvár , Maderspach helped with his wife Franziska, geb. Buchwald Hungarian refugees. On the instructions of the Austrian commander-in-chief Julius von Haynau , his wife was publicly whipped in Ruskberg, after which the embittered Maderspach committed suicide by shooting. He was the father of the mining engineer Livius Maderspach .
literature
- Hugo Fuchs: Contribution to the history of the iron bridges in Hungary . In: Conrad Matschoß: Contributions to the history of technology and industry. Yearbook of the Association of German Engineers . Seventh volume, Springer-Verlag, 2013, ISBN 3-66240-240-8 , pp. 81-83.
- Entry Maderspach (Madersbacher), Károly (1791-1849), technician . In: Österreichisches Biographisches Lexikon 1815–1950 , Volume 5, 1972, p. 399.
- Entry Maderspach Károly, Madersbacher. In: Hungarian Biographical Lexicon (Magyar Életrajzi Lexicon)
- Julia Schiff : A hegy vonzáskörében. Around the mountain. History of the mining engineers and geologists of the Hofmann and Maderspach families. In: Bányászati és Kohászati Lapok (Mining and Metallurgical Works), Vol. 136, Issue 5, 2003, pp. 297–305.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ entry Maderspach Károlyné, Buchenwald Franciska. In: In: Magyar Életrajzi Lexicon (Hungarian Biographical Lexicon)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Maderspach, Károly |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Madersbacher, Karl |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian metallurgical engineer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 3, 1791 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Orawitz , Holy Roman Empire |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 23, 1849 |
| Place of death | Ruskberg , Austrian Empire |