Franz Xaver Riepl

Franz Xaver Riepl ( born November 29, 1790 in Graz, † April 25, 1857 in Vienna ) was an Austrian geologist, railway and metallurgical expert.

Life

From Riepl, who from 1819 to 1838 on k.k. Polytechnic Institute in Vienna, was a professor of Commodity Science and Natural History, came the suggestion to reduce the Styrian Erzberg open pit. Riepl and in 1828 developed a plan for a rail link from Galicia via Vienna to Trieste, and he developed detailed route plans. He also provided the impetus for the establishment of the important for the construction of the Northern Railway Vítkovice works. In 1836 he presented the first plan for a railway network overall in Austria. Instead of the Semmering Railway, he recommended a route over Varasd (see Archduke Johann -Bahn ).

On April 25, 1857 died Franz Xaver Riepl, kk emeritus. Professor and Director of the Northern Railway, in the house highway 484 to paralysis of the lungs. His body was first buried on St. Marx Cemetery - his final resting place at the cemetery but Riepl the market town Hinterbrühl ( Eichbergstraße ) in Lower Austria.

In 1904, the area Located in the South Station in Vienna-Favoriten Rieplstraße was named after him.