Sebastian von Maillard
Sebastian von Maillard (born October 30, 1746 in Lunéville , † December 19, 1822 in Vienna ) was an Imperial Lieutenant Field Marshal of the Habsburg Monarchy .
Life
Von Maillard's father was Stanislaus I. Leszczyński's personal physician . Around 1762 he entered the Grand Ducal Tuscan military service and in 1772 was accepted as a first lieutenant in the engineering corps of the imperial army. After studying military engineering, he became a professor of military architecture at the Vienna Engineering Academy.
He helped Johann d'Arnal with his fire mill machine and in 1784 wrote Mémoires sur la théorie des machines à feu , for which he received an honorary award, suspended by the Imperial Russian Academy of Sciences in St. Petersburg, and at the suggestion of Johann Albrecht Euler as a corresponding Member of this academy was appointed. In 1785 he was promoted to captain.
In the Turkish War of 1789 he was assigned to the Siege Corps of Belgrade and received a commendation from the Feldzeugmeister, Prince Charles Joseph de Ligne . In 1794 he led the defense of Maastricht, which only surrendered when 2,000 houses were in ruins. Friedrich von Hessen-Kassel (1747-1837) then praised him to the emperor. In 1795 he was commissioned by Emperor Franz II to level a canal from Schottwien to Vienna, the design and course of which was significantly changed after a study trip to England, where he got to know British canals. From 1797 to 1799 he was in charge of the construction of this waterway, first known as the “Vienna Canal”, today's Wiener Neustädter Canal . The Wiener Neustädter Canal was completed under the direction of Josef Schemerl .
In 1804 he became a foreign member of the Royal Bohemian Society of Sciences in Prague. From 1788 he was a corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Saint Petersburg .
Publications
- Méthode Nouvelle Plus Courte Et Plus Simple Et En Bien Des Cas Plus Exacte De Traiter La Mechanique , Vienna, Trattner, 1800
- Instructions for the design and construction of navigable canals , Pest, 1817
- Nouvelle méthode de traiter la méchanique ; Vienna 1808
- Mechanics of the vaults dealt with in their entirety, including the bridge arches and simple vaults of every common shape, made of stone and brick as well as of cast iron, etc .; Pest, 1817
- Collection of experiments on the properties and preparation of various cements and cement mortars ; Vienna 1820
- Notes on Carnot's Fortification Art
- Memoires on the poussée des voûtes
literature
- Constantin von Wurzbach : Maillard, Sebastian von . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 16th part. Imperial-Royal Court and State Printing Office, Vienna 1867, p. 307 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Adolf Schinzl: Maillard, Sebastian von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 20, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1884, pp. 105-107.
Individual evidence
- ^ Wiener Geschichtsblätter , Volume 37, p. 165: "against Wurzbach and Poggendorf died December 19, 1822, Seilerstätte 804"
- ↑ Streffleur's military magazine, issues 10-12, pp. 94f
- ^ Foreign members of the Russian Academy of Sciences since 1724. Sebastian Maillard. Russian Academy of Sciences, accessed October 4, 2015 (Russian).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Maillard, Sebastian von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian Imperial Field Marshal Lieutenant |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 30, 1746 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Luneville |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 19, 1822 |
| Place of death | Vienna |