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Gustave Eiffel
French chemical engineer and architect (1832–1923)
Details
- Instance of
- human
- Born
- 15 December 1832
- Died
- 27 December 1923
- Place of birth
- Dijon
- Place of death
- Paris
- Sex or gender
- male
- Family name
- Eiffel
- Spouse
- Marguerite Gaudelet
- Field of work
- urban design, architecture, steel building, aerodynamics engineering
- Occupation
- civil engineer, architect, entrepreneur, engineer, general contractor, military flight engineer
- Position held
- president
- Citizenship
- France
- Awards
- Knight of the Legion of Honour, Officer of the Legion of Honour, Langley Gold Medal, Fourneyron prize
- birth name
- Alexandre Gustave Bonickhausen dit Eiffel
- described by source
- Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, The Nuttall Encyclopædia, Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary, Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947), Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1950–1958), The Art of The Countries and Peoples of The World. Tome 5
- educated at
- École Centrale Paris, Collège Sainte-Barbe
- has works in the collection
- Archives nationales
- languages spoken, written or signed
- French
- member of
- Société d'encouragement pour l'industrie nationale, Société des ingénieurs civils de France, Aéro-Club de France
- name in native language
- Gustave Eiffel
- notable work
- Garabit Viaduct, Pont métallique sur l'Adour, Eiffel Tower, Statue of Liberty, Ponte de D. Maria Pia
- number of children
- 5
- partner in business or sport
- Théophile Seyrig
- place of burial
- Levallois-Perret Cemetery
- relative
- Tullie Moneuse, Georges Salles
- residence
- rue Rabelais, place d'Iéna
- significant person
- Gustave-Auguste Ferrié, Louis Paul Cailletet, Stéphen Sauvestre
- start of work period
- 1855
- topic's main category
- Category:Gustave Eiffel
- writing language
- French
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