!!!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.



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