Frutos Saavedra Meneses (25 October 1823 – 23 October 1868) was a Spanish soldier, geodesist and politician.

Biography

He completed his training at the Military Academy in Segovia, where he became an instructor. He reached the rank of colonel. Incorporated into the artillery corps, he represented this corps in the Spain Map Commission, where he made a friend of

Carlos Ibáñez e Ibáñez de Ibero Carlos Ibáñez e Ibáñez de Ibero, 1st Marquis of Mulhacén, (14 April 1825 – 28 or 29 January 1891) was a Spanish divisional general and geodesist. He represented Spain at the 1875 Conference of the Metre Convention and was the first presid ...

. They designed together a geodetic standard which was made in Paris by

Jean Brunner Jean Brunner or Johann Josef Brunner (1804 in Balsthal – 1862 in Paris), was a Swiss-born, French measuring instrument maker and mechanic.Eveline Hänggi: ''Die fünf Turmuhren von Balsthal und der vergessene Balsthaler Künstler Johann Josef Bru ...

. This instrument was used to measure the central base of the Spanish geodetic network. He began his political career as a member of the Liberal Union for the constituency of Coruña and served four terms between 1860 and 1866. In 1864, he was appointed Director General of Public Works. Saavedra was appointed in 1862 to the Spanish Royal Academy of Sciences because of his geodesic work. In 1867 he was also appointed academician of the

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, but was unable to access it due to his untimely death.

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