Karl Pestalozzi (engineer)
Karl Pestalozzi (born May 4, 1825 in Neuhof (municipality of Birr) , † January 14, 1891 in Zurich ) was a Swiss engineer and road builder .
Life
Karl Pestalozzi, a great-grandson of Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi , came from a Reformed family in Zurich. He was the son of Katharina Schmid and the farmer Gottlieb Pestalozzi. He attended the Cantonal School in Zurich and studied engineering in Karlsruhe and Vienna from 1840 to 1845 . Under the direction of Johannes Wild, he participated in the recording of the topographic map of the Canton of Zurich. From 1856 he was an assistant teacher for engineering, 1864 titular professor, and from 1881 to 1891 full professor for road, sewer and hydraulic engineering as the successor of Carl Culmann at the Swiss Federal Polytechnic in Zurich .
Pestalozzi prepared numerous river engineering reports, including a. for the regulation of the Rhine and the flow regulation of Lake Geneva . From 1854 to 1883 he was a member of the municipal building commission, from 1861 to 1865 Zurich city council (building authority) and from 1865 to 1883 large city council. He was Treasurer of the Pestalozzi Foundation and Colonel of the Artillery . Pestalozzi remained single all his life.
literature
- Peter Müller-Grieshaber: Karl Pestalozzi. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
- Schweizerische Bauzeitung 17, 1891, pp. 19–21.
- Hans Pestalozzi-Keyser: History of the Pestalozzi Family , 1958, p. 156 f. OCLC 887792882
- Daniel Vischer: Hydraulic engineers and hydraulic engineers in Switzerland: short biographies of selected personalities. Baden: Swiss Water Management Association, 2001, p. 75 f. ISBN 9783855458592
Individual evidence
- ^ Peter Müller-Grieshaber: Karl Pestalozzi. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
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| SURNAME | Pestalozzi, Karl |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss engineer and road builder |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 4, 1825 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Neuhof (municipality of Birr) |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 14, 1891 |
| Place of death | Zurich |