Paul Camille von Denis
Paul Camille Denis, later von Denis, (28 June 1796 – 3 September 1872) was an engineer, railway pioneer and participant in the Hambach Festival, the German political protest of 1832.
Denis was born at Château des Saales in
Initially employed as a trainee by the Bavarian state - to which the Palatinate then belonged - from 3 March 1816 he worked as a construction overseer (Baukondukteur) in Germersheim. In 1822 he became an engineering inspector at Speyer and, in 1826, was promoted to engineer, first class, at Zweibrücken.
Here he came into close contact with the democratic opposition organised by Friedrich Schüler,
As a member of the Palatine state parliament he took part in the
On his return he built the first German railway line, the
Now highly respected, he received the Knight's Cross of
In 1865 Paul Camille von Denis became the head of the planning commission for the Rhine bridge on the
Sources
Wolfgang Kunz, Paul Camille von Denis - ein Lebensbild, in: Jahrbuch für Eisenbahngeschichte 21 (1989), S. 5 - 14.
External links
- There is an English-language railway forum at Railways of Germany
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