Leonhard von Liebener
Leonhard Liebener von Monte Cristallo (born January 24, 1800 in Truden , South Tyrol , † February 9, 1869 in Innsbruck ) was an Austrian civil engineer .
Life
He received his first education in the house of his uncle, the kk forest inspector Franz Liebener in Primör . After working as an engineer in Bozen , Trient and Imst , he came to Innsbruck in 1848 , where he was promoted to senior construction inspector and head of the regional building authorities of Tyrol and Vorarlberg . Various buildings and roads were built under his direction, including the Stephansbrücke near Matrei am Brenner , at that time the largest stone bridge in the monarchy, the artificial roads in the Valsugana , on the Fernpass , the Katzenbergstraße near Reutte and the Etsch intersections near Centa , Nomi and Marco.
As early as 1849 he was co-editor of the first large geognostic map of Tyrol, in the compilation of which he played a major role through his observations. He then had a reduced geognostic overview map of Tyrol and Vorarlberg drawn up. In collaboration with the building inspector Johann Vorhauser, the father of Johann von Vorhauser , he wrote the first scientific report on The Minerals of Tyrol in 1852 , which he expanded in 1866.
In his many travels in Tyrol he discovered the four new minerals Brandesits , Vorhauserits , Prägrattit and the eponymous " Liebenerit ". The fossils "Pleurotomaria Liebenerii" and the Liebenerspitze in the Ötztal Alps also bear his name . The mineral and petrification collections were partially taken over by the Geological Reichsanstalt in Vienna and the Tyrolean State Museum Ferdinandeum as well as Harvard University in Cambridge .
When he retired in 1868, he was raised to the hereditary nobility with the predicate "von Monte Cristallo" in recognition of his structural and scientific merits .
In 1866 his daughter Virginia married at the age of 35 the doctor, mayor of Meran and writer Gottlieb Putz (1818-1886), with whom she had a daughter and two sons.
literature
- Attlmayr: Dear one of Monte Cristallo Leonhard. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 5, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1972, p. 194.
- Wilhelm von Gümbel: Dear from Monte Cristallo, Leonhard . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 18, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1883, p. 563 f.
- Hans Jaeger: Dear from Monte Cristallo, Leonhard. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 14, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1985, ISBN 3-428-00195-8 , p. 476 ( digitized version ).
Individual evidence
- ^ Austrian Biographical Lexicon , Putz, Gottlieb
- ↑ Helga Tödt: Caspar Andreas and his children. Chronicle of the Ziese family from fishing , p. 174
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Dear, Leonhard von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Beloved of Monte Cristallo (full name from 1868) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian civil engineer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 24, 1800 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Truden , South Tyrol |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 9, 1869 |
| Place of death | innsbruck |