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Harkort is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Eduard Harkort (1797–1836), German-born colonel in the Texas Revolution *Friedrich Harkort (1793–1880), German industrialist *Gustav Harkort Gustav Harkort (3 March 1795, in Hagen – 29 August 1865, in Leipzig) was a German entrepreneur and railroad pioneer from Leipzig, Germany. Biography Gustav Harkort was the sixth of eight children of the hardware manufacturer and merchant J ... (1795–1865), German entrepreneur and railroad pioneer * Louisa Catharina Harkort (1718–1795), German ironmaster {{surname ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eduard Harkort
Eduard Harkort, also known as Edward Harcourt (July 18, 1797 – August 11, 1836) was a German-born mining engineer who served as a colonel in the Texian Army The Texian Army, also known as the Revolutionary Army and Army of the People, was the land warfare branch of the Texian armed forces during the Texas Revolution. It spontaneously formed from the Texian Militia in October 1835 following the Ba ... during the Texas Revolution. References 1797 births 1836 deaths German emigrants to Mexico People of the Texas Revolution {{texas-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Friedrich Harkort
Friedrich Harkort (February 22, 1793, Hagen - March 6, 1880), known as the "Father of the Ruhr," was an early prominent German industrialist and pioneer of industrial development in the Ruhr region.(29 December 2009)Friedrich Harkort - Vorbild und Vordenker ''Derwesten.de'' (in German) In 1819, he founded the first industrial workshop at Castle Wetter. An early proponent of railroads, he proposed the construction of a railway line from Cologne to Minden in 1825, which eventuated as the Cologne-Minden trunk line, completed in 1847. In 1826 he built a small test track, as a monorail following a design of the Englishman Henry Robinson Palmer Henry Robinson Palmer (1795–1844) was a British civil engineer who designed the world's second monorail and the first elevated railway. He is also credited as the inventor of corrugated metal roofing, still one of the world's major building m .... References Further reading * Berger, Louis. ''Friedrich Harkort: Erinnerungen eines Enk ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gustav Harkort
Gustav Harkort (3 March 1795, in Hagen – 29 August 1865, in Leipzig) was a German entrepreneur and railroad pioneer from Leipzig, Germany. Biography Gustav Harkort was the sixth of eight children of the hardware manufacturer and merchant Johann Caspar Harkort IV. He was also the brother of industrialist and politician Friedrich Harkort, entrepreneur Johann Caspar Harkort V. and mining engineer and officer Eduard Harkort. Gustav Harkort attended the trade school in Hagen, and after completion, began a commercial apprenticeship in his father's company. In 1813 he took part in the German Campaign of 1813 as a lieutenant in the Märkisches Landwehr Regiment. In 1829 Harkort directed the planning for the construction of the Magdeburg-Leipzig railway line. On 3 April 1834 Harkort was one of the founders of the Railway Committee, which adopted the concept for a German railway network by Friedrich List (1789–1846) and built a first route between Leipzig and Dresden Dresd ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
