!!!Tetmajer, Ludwig von

b.  Krompach (now Krompachy, Slovakia), July 14, 1850 
d. Vienna, Jan. 31, 1905, engineer, pioneer of materials testing. 
Studied civil and structural engineering at the Zurich Polytechnic 
Institute from 1868 to 1872, and established an internationally 
renowned materials testing institute there in 1880; founded the 
International Association for Materials Testing in 1895. Appointed 
Professor of Technological Mechanics and Building Materials at Vienna 
University of Technology in 1901, expanded the Technical Research 
Institute; focused in particular on stability problems in the case of 
buckling (Tetmajer formula).



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