!!!Negrelli, Alois, von Moldelbe b. Primiero (Italy), Jan. 23, 1799, d. Vienna, Oct. 1, 1858, civil engineer, specialised in railway construction, hydraulic engineering, and road building. 1832-1840 constructed bridges and railways in Switzerland (including the first railway track between Zurich and Baden), from 1840 worked in Austria, built parts of the Nordbahn railway; 1848 director of the Railway Construction Department at the Ministry of Labour, 1849 became managing director of the Principal Construction Authority in Lombardy-Veneto and 1856 general director of the Austrian Railway Services. Contributed decisively to railway construction in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, in Switzerland, in Wuerttemberg and Saxony, and 1846-1856 drew up the plans for the Suez Canal, which was built by the French engineer F. Lesseps and opened in 1869. !Publication Ueber Gebirgsbahnen, 1842. !Literature A. Birk, A. v. N., 2 vols., 1915/1925; A. Leonardi, A. N. Ingegnere e il Canale di Suez, 1990; OeBL. %%language [Back to the Austrian Version|AEIOU/Negrelli,_Alois,_von_Moldelbe|class='wikipage austrian'] %% [{FreezeArticle author='AEIOU' template='Lexikon_1995_englisch'}] [{ALLOW view All}][{ALLOW comment All}][{ALLOW edit FreezeAdmin}]