!!!Redtenbacher, Ferdinand Jakob

Redtenbacher, Ferdinand Jakob, b. Steyr (Upper Austraia), July 25, 1809, 
d. Karlsruhe (Germany), April 16, 1863, engineer. Founder of 
scientific mechanical engineering; after his studies at the 
Polytechnical Institute in Vienna 1829-1833 assistant to J.  
Arzberger, from 1841 professor of mechanics and mechanical engineering 
in Karlsruhe (1857-1862 Director), Germany´s oldest technical 
school to whose outstanding reputation R. considerably contributed.

!Works
Theorie und Bau der Wasserraeder, 1846; Prinzipien der Mechanik 
und des Maschinenbaus, 1852; Der Maschinenbau, 3 vols., 1862-1865.

!Literature
OeBL.



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