Paul Dubois (engineer)

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Paul Dubois (born December 31, 1846 in Le Locle , † April 18, 1882 in Bern ) was a Swiss mechanical engineer , active in the sugar industry . Among other things, he built the central sugar refinery in the Natal colony .

Career

Paul Dubois studied mechanical engineering at the Polytechnic in Karlsruhe , where he became a member of the Teutonia fraternity . He then studied in Paris at the École Centrale des Arts et Manufactures , where he completed his engineering degree in 1870.

Three years later, E. Boivin and D. Loiseau's company from Paris sent him to Mauritius to install machines in a sugar refinery. Later the Société des Forges et Fonderies from Mauritius commissioned him to build the central factory in the colony of Natal. Back in Mauritius, he became the workshop manager in Port Louis , Flacq and Rose-Belle.

In 1881 Dubois fell ill and was sent back to Switzerland. He was treated in Bern, but died after a burst liver abscess .

swell

  • Biographies Neuchâteloises, Volume 2. Hauterive 1998.
  • Le Véritable messager boiteux de Neuchâtel pour l'an 1833, page 47, 1883.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Georg Kirschner: Directory of Members of the Karlsruhe Burschenschaft Teutonia , 1966.
  2. ↑ cf. Boivin and Loiseau's Process for Refining Raw Sugar. In: Polytechnisches Journal . 196, 1870, pp. 84-86.
personal data
SURNAME Dubois, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss machine builder, active in the sugar industry
DATE OF BIRTH December 31, 1846
PLACE OF BIRTH Le Locle
DATE OF DEATH April 18, 1882
Place of death Bern