Schönerer, Mathias von#

b. Vienna, Jan. 9, 1807, d. Vienna, Oct. 30, 1881. Railway engineer. When his teacher F. A. von Gerstner resigned he became the supervisor of the construction of the horse-traction railroads between Linz and Ceske Budejovice (1829-1832) and between Linz and Gmunden (1834/1835); he constructed the Vienna-Gloggnitz railway in 1840, was its director from 1841-1853, and subsequently constructed further lines in Lower Austria; built the first Austrian railway car and locomotive factory in Vienna in 1839.

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