Henri de Dion

Comte Joseph -Louis Henri de Dion ( born December 23, 1828 in Montfort l'Amaury, † April 13, 1878 in Paris) was a French civil engineer (steel construction ).

He was educated in Switzerland and at the Ecole Centrale des Arts et Manufactures ( 1848-1851 ). Then he built with Eugène Flachat the bridge of Langon and with his brother Joseph -Louis -Adolphe he was involved in the restoration of the Cathedral of Bayeux (1854 ). He built several iron bridges in Spain and a train station in Madrid ( Station de las Delicias ) and a sugar factory in Guadeloupe ( 1862). In 1870 he returned to Paris to participate in the defense. For the construction of entrenchments at Champigny under enemy fire, he became an officer of the Legion of Honour.

He led the Conservatoire des Arts et Metiers and was static professor at the Ecole Centrale d'Architecture. Gustave Eiffel was one of his students.

In 1877 he became President of the French civil engineering company.

In 1878 he was responsible for various iron hangars at the World Exhibition in Paris, but died before its completion. Parts of it were later in an airship hangar in Meudon ( Hangar Y, it still exists today ) is used again, another part as a hall in Cardinet, which was demolished in 2008 by the city of Paris, in Belfort and the Bassin de la Villette in Paris.

He is one of the 72 names on the Eiffel Tower.

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• Civil
• Member of the Legion of Honour ( Officer )
• Frenchman
• Born in 1828
• Died in 1878
• Man