Ludwig August Fallon
Ludwig August Freiherr von Fallon (born November 27, 1776 in Namur , † September 4, 1828 in Vienna ) was an Austrian major general and cartographer .
Life
Fallon did a great job of land surveying and mapping in Austria. He came to Vienna from the Austrian Netherlands at an early age and joined the engineering corps in 1796 after studying at the engineering academy. In 1804 he accompanied Archduke Johann on a trip through Tyrol and Veneto for the purpose of national defense . 1805 worked as a captain in the general quartermaster's staff, he worked on the surveying of Tyrol and carried out an altitude measurement when climbing the Ortler . In 1806/07 he took part in the great triangulation . In 1809 he was entrusted with fortification tasks in the headquarters of Archduke Karl . 1813-15 he was in the headquarters of Field Marshal Prince Schwarzenberg . The military surveying of large parts of Austria was carried out under his direction. Also around 1817 began creating the property tax - cadastral maps he earned merit.
He was the holder of the Russian Order of St. Vladimir 3rd Class and the Prussian Military Order of Merit .
Works
- Hypsometry of Austria: Volume 1 The heights ascent in Tyrol, Istria and in the Golfe von Garnavo (1831), digitized
- Disposition of the view fires, which are given for the purpose of determining the astronomical length between Munich and the furnace, digitized
literature
- Imperial and Royal as well as Ertzhertzoglicher Then Dero Haupt- and Residentz-Stadt Wien Staats- und Standes-Calendar, Auf das Gnaden-rich Jahr 1826, p. 315 .
- Constantin von Wurzbach : Fallon, Ludwig August von . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 4th part. Typogr.-literar.-artist publishing house. Establishment (L. C. Zamarski, C. Dittmarsch & Comp.), Vienna 1858, p. 141 ( digitized version ).
- Karl von Landmann : Fallon, Ludwig August von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 6, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1877, p. 566 f.
- Fallon, Ludwig August Frh. Von. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 1, Publishing House of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1957, p. 286 f. (Direct links on p. 286 , p. 287 ).
- Oskar Regele : Fallon, Ludwig August von. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 5, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1961, ISBN 3-428-00186-9 , p. 20 f. ( Digitized version ).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Der Wanderer 1828, p.492 obituary notice
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Fallon, Ludwig August |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Fallon, Ludwig August Freiherr von (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian major general and cartographer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 27, 1776 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Namur |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 4, 1828 |
| Place of death | Vienna |