Joseph Amerlinck (1862–1915) was a Belgian railway engineer active in Central Africa and South America.
Life
Amerlinck was born in
Ghent on 22 May 1862.
[R. Campus, "Amerlinck (Joseph-Marie)", '' Biographie Nationale de Belgique'', vol. 31 (Brussels, 1961), 24.] After graduating from the School of Civil Engineering of
Ghent University, in 1888 he set off for the
Congo Free State
''(Work and Progress)
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, capital = Vivi Boma
, currency = Congo Free State franc
, religion = Catholicism (''de facto'')
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, to assess the feasibility of building a railway line from Lukungu to Leopoldville. He later worked in
Chile, where he briefly taught at the
University of Santiago, and for about a decade in
Guatemala
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, as director of a railway.
[ Around 1905 he moved to Mexico, where his descendants became the family Amerlinck y Zirión.][Eddy Stols, ''De Belgen en Mexico'' (Leuven University Press, 1993), p. 132.] He died on 5 February 1915.[
]
References
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1862 births
1915 deaths
Belgian engineers
Ghent University alumni