Leonidas Lewicki

Leonidas Lewicki (born November 5, 1840 in Vienna , † August 27, 1907 in Dresden ) was an Austro-German mechanical engineer and university professor.

life and work

Leonidas Lewicki was born in Vienna as the son of the railway engineer Antoni Lewicki. From 1854 he attended the upper secondary school in Innsbruck before he went to study mechanical engineering at the Zurich Polytechnic in 1858 . Here he joined the Corps Rhenania . His teachers in Zurich included professors Gustav Zeuner and Franz Reuleaux . After completing his studies as a graduate engineer in 1861, he took a position as a designer at the Swiss Central Railway in Olten under Niklaus Riggenbach .

In 1863 he returned to Zurich as Reuleaux's assistant. In 1864 he went first as a lecturer and later as a full professor of mechanical engineering at the Riga Polytechnic . In 1870 he was appointed full professor and head of the technical college for mechanical engineering and mechanical technology at the newly opened RWTH Aachen . In 1874 he was appointed full professor of mechanical engineering and head of the Institute for Designing Machines and the Machine Model Collection at the Dresden University of Technology . In 1896 he became head of the machine laboratory II for power machines that he had set up and in 1900 of the mechanical engineering laboratory A. In 1903 and 1904, he was the rector of the TH Dresden.

In the field of mechanical engineering, Lewicki worked on steam engines , steam rams , steam ships , propellers , combustion systems , steam boiler systems , engine systems , water machines , pumps and fans . The first European district heating plant was built in Dresden's Great Packhofstrasse with his significant participation.

Leonidas Lewicki is buried in the Johannisfriedhof in Dresden-Tolkewitz .

family

Leonidas Lewicki was a member of a family that had worked as engineers and scientists for many generations.

His father was the railway engineer Antoni Lewicki (1815–1882), who came from Galicia and was instrumental in the construction of the Wiener Neustadt-Ödenburg, Innsbruck-Kufstein and the Semmering railway lines.

Like his father, his son Ernst Anton (1863–1937) was a mechanical engineer and professor of power machines at the TH Dresden. In 1908, one year after his death, he became his successor. His grandson Ernst Wolfgang (1894–1973) was a civil engineer and also a professor at the TU Dresden.

Leonidas Lewicki was married to Luise Sattler, daughter of the industrialist Wilhelm Sattler (1784-1859), the inventor of the Schweinfurt green .

Fonts

• Lectures on mechanical engineering . Published by the Machine Technician Association at the Royal Dresden Polytechnic. Dresden 1882.
• Report on smoke-free steam boiler systems in Saxony: Calorimetric investigations . Dresden 1896.
• About the development of the course at the technical universities and at the Dresden Technical University in particular . Rector's speech on March 1, 1903. In: Report on the Royal Saxon Technical University of Dresden for the academic year 1902/1903. Dresden 1903, pp. 26–35.
• Numerous papers in professional journals

Awards

Lewickistrasse in Dresden-Tolkewitz

• In 1887 he was awarded the Knight's Cross First Class of the Saxon Order of Merit.
• Because of his scientific merits he was appointed Privy Councilor.
• In 1898 he was awarded the Commander's Cross II. Class of the Albrechts Order .
• Lewickistrasse in Dresden-Tolkewitz was named after him.

literature

• Quirchmayer:  Lewicki Leonidas. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 5, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1972, p. 171.
• Lewicki, Johann Leonidas . In: Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon . 6th edition. Volume 12, Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig / Vienna 1908, p.  492 .
• Lewicki, Leonidas (Johann). In: Dorit Petschel : 175 years of TU Dresden. Volume 3: The professors of the TU Dresden 1828–2003. Edited on behalf of the Society of Friends and Supporters of the TU Dresden e. V. von Reiner Pommerin , Böhlau, Cologne a. a. 2003, ISBN 3-412-02503-8 .
• Klaus Koppe: Historical development of energy technology at the TU Dresden and its classification in the history of technology . A contribution on the occasion of the 175th anniversary of the founding of the Technical University of Dresden in 2003. (PDF; 3.9 MB)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 150 years of the Corps Rhenania Zurich-Aachen-Braunschweig, 1855–2005. Braunschweig 2005, p. 298.
2. ^ Roland Rappmann: The beginnings of the RWTH Aachen in pictures and documents.
3. ^ Entry in the Dresden Lexicon
4. ^ Johannisfriedhof Tolkewitz
5. ^ Lewicki, Antoni . In: ÖBL 1815–1950. Volume 5 (Lfg. 22, 1970), p. 170.
6. ↑ Official notices. In: Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung. Volume 7, No. 19 (May 7, 1887), p. 181.
7. ↑ Official notices. . In: Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung. Volume 18, No. 18 (April 30, 1898), p. 205.
8. ^ Streets and squares in Tolkewitz