Martin Friedrich van Alten
Martin Friedrich (Wilhelm) von Alten (born January 27, 1762 in Coeslin , † October 17, 1843 in Berlin ) was a Prussian secret senior building officer and university professor .
career
From 1783 to 1786 von Alten worked as a surveyor and participated in the clearing of the Drömling . From 1786 to 1788 he worked as a construction manager on the Oder regulation work between Küstrin and Stettin and from 1788 was chief dike inspector in the Kurmark . At the request of Minister von Woellner , he was to be accepted into the Oberbaudepartement in 1793 , but this was rejected by Woellner's colleague von Voss. In 1794 he then took on the business of SF Stein, who had switched to the army, together with the war and domain councilor Siebicke. In 1796 he was employed as an assessor in the upper building department and in 1801 was assigned the hydraulic engineering work on the Vistula . In 1804 he became the successor of Christian Timotheus Seidel as a secret senior building officer and worked on East Prussian and Lithuanian building matters until 1809. Then he was released from the senior building department. From 1803 to 1820 he taught hydraulic engineering, bridge construction and road construction at the Bauakademie in Berlin .
Fonts
Instructions for the creation and maintenance of art and country roads , Dümmler, Berlin 1816
literature
- Rolf Straubel: Biographical manual of the Prussian administrative and judicial officials 1740-1806 / 15 . KG Saur, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-598-23229-9 , p. 6 .
- Scholarly Berlin in 1825 . Ferdinand Dümmler, Berlin 1826, p. 3, 4 .
- Christiane Brandt-Salloum, Ralph Jaeckel, Constanze Krause, Oliver Sander, Reinhart Fahrt, Michaela Utpatel and Stephan Waldhoff: Inventory on the history of the Prussian building administration 1723-1848 . Editor: Reinhart Route. 2 volumes (publications from the archives of Prussian cultural property; work reports, No. 7). Self-published by the Secret State Archives of Prussian Cultural Heritage, Berlin 2005. PDF , accessed on February 17, 2020
Individual evidence
- ↑ Martin Friedrich van Alten. In: Catalogus Professorum. TU Berlin, accessed on February 3, 2020 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Alten, Martin Friedrich van |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | von Alten, Martin Friedrich (Wilhelm); van Alten, Martin |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Prussian construction officer and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 27, 1762 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Coeslin |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 17, 1843 |
| Place of death | Berlin |