Wilhelm Nordlinger

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Wilhelm Nördlinger (born August 29, 1821 in Stuttgart ; † November 6, 1908 ) was a German engineer.

Life

Old Grandfey Viaduct built by Nördlinger
Busseau Viaduct in the Massif Central in France

Wilhelm Nördlinger was born as the youngest child of the forest scientist Julius Simon von Nördlinger and his wife Carolina Wilhelmine Johanna, b. Duttenhofer born. He attended a grammar school in Stuttgart and from 1840 the École polytechnique in Paris . He then became an external student of the École nationale des ponts et chaussées . From 1844 he was busy building the canal of the upper Marne ; In 1847 he took a job with the Compagnie de l'Est and worked on the construction of the railway line between Nancy and Saarbrücken . From 1853 he worked for the Compagnie du Midi and built sections of the Bordeaux - Toulouse and Bordeaux- Bayonne railway lines . Three years later he became chief engineer for the section of the Lausanne- Paris line between Lausanne and the Swiss border and in 1857 chief engineer of the Compagnie d'Orléans in Paris. Here he took French citizenship and the name de Nordling . He was now particularly responsible for the construction of many railway lines in the Massif Central . He received numerous prizes for the further development of the pillar system with which the deep gorges were crossed.

In 1870 he moved to Vienna as a consultant for Austrian railway construction and shortly afterwards to Budapest , where he reformed the Theiss Railway and supported the Sultan of Constantinople in the construction of the Constantinople-Saloniki line. From 1875 to 1881 he was the highest director of the railway lines of the Austrian Empire.

In 1886 he returned to Paris to spend his old age there. Here he was committed, among other things, to the abolition of trafficking in girls , freedom of teaching and the enforcement of the legally regulated non-working Sunday. He was one of the founding members of the Ligue populaire pour le Repos du Dimanche and spoke for them at many congresses.

Nördlinger was married to Marie Sengwald or Sengenwald from Strasbourg since 1860. The couple had three daughters.

Works

  • Etude sur la jurisprudence en matière de marchés de terrassements , Paris (Dunod) 1869

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=phco&id=I3266
  2. ↑ http://rocks.ensmp.fr/cgi-bin/koha/opac-ISBDdetail.pl?bib=49101
personal data
SURNAME Nordlinger, Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Nördlinger, Wilhelm von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German railway engineer
DATE OF BIRTH August 29, 1821
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart
DATE OF DEATH November 6, 1908