Léon Charles Thévenin

Léon Charles Thévenin ( born March 30, 1857 in Meaux, France; † 21 September 1926 in Paris, France) was a French telegraph engineer. He is the namesake of Thévenin 's theorem.

Thévenin graduated in 1876 at the École Polytechnique ( Polytechnic German, French elite school) and telegraphy in 1879 at the École supérieure de (German Telegraphiehochschule ). In 1890 he started working for the fledgling Administration des Postes et Télégraphes (German Post and Telegraph administration). At the same time he worked on mathematics courses and conducts its own research in the electricity through. In the creation of the Ecole professionnelle supérieure des Postes et Télégraphes ( EPSPT, German Higher Vocational School of Post and Telegraph ) in 1888 he began to teach mathematics there, and electricity. In 1896 he was appointed director of this school. He conducted studies that should influence to build the kind of power grids. In 1901, he was replaced as director of the EPSPT by Édouard Estaunie. Until retirement, he became head of the Administration des Postes et Télégraphes, which builds machines for stamp production work.

Thévenin published in 1896 a kirchhoffschen on the rules and Ohm's law based formula to simplify the electrical schemes, known as Thévenin 's theorem.

• Electrical Engineer
• Personality of Electrical Engineering
• Frenchman
• Born in 1857
• Died in 1926
• Man