!!!Exner, Wilhelm Franz

b. Gaenserndorf (Lower Austria), April 9, 1840, 
d. Vienna, May 25, 1931, engineer. 1868 professor and from 1875 
principal of the Academy of Forestry at Mariabrunn, which he 
integrated into the University of Agricultural Science of Vienna; 
initiated the establishment of the TGM-Institute of Technology in 
Vienna and was its first principal from 1879-1904; participated 
substantially in founding the  Vienna Museum of Technology (Technical 
Museum of Industry and Commerce) in 1908, the Austrian Research 
Institute of the History of Technology in 1931, and the 
"Gewerbefoerderungsamt", an institution for the promotion of trade and 
industry; 1910 president of the "Technisches Versuchsamt" (Technical 
Testing Institute), 1925 honorary member of the Academy of Sciences, 
1882 member of the lower chamber of the Reichsrat, 1905 member of the 
upper chamber of the Reichsrat.

!Publication
Erlebnisse, 1931 (autobiography).

!Literature
F. Renisch, W. F. E. 1840-1931, 1999; OeBL; NDB.



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