!!!Riepl, Franz Xaver

Riepl, Franz Xaver, b. Graz (Styria), Nov. 29, 1790, 
d. Vienna, April 25, 1857, mining and railway expert. 1821-1838 
professor of natural history and merchandise studies at the 
Polytechnical Institute in Vienna, 1824 introduced open pit mining in 
benches at the Erzberg ore mine under Archduke Johann, 1829 first 
plans for the Kaiser-Ferdinand-Nordbahn (northern railway line) opened 
in 1837, later worked on the project of an Austria-wide railway 
network. P>

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