WIEBEKING

GERMANY (see also List of Individuals)

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25.7.1762 Wollin/PL - 28.5.1842 München/D

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The professional career of Carl Friedrich von Wiebeking started in 1779 when preparing drawings of the County Mecklenburg-Strelitz. Then he was asked to assist in surveying the provinces of Western Prussia, Pomerania and Thuringia. From 1788 he was a Wasserbaumeister of the Duchy of Berg in Düsseldorf. He tried in vain to be elected a member of the Prussian government and thus stayed in Darmstadt as an inspector of the Rhine River service. From 1802, von Wiebeking was a Lecturer of civil engineering in Vienna, and was appointed in 1805 head of the general direction of water, bridges and roads in Munich. He was elected Member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences in 1807 and was awarded in 1808 the Bavarian Order of the Crown. von Wiebeking retired in 1817 and continued to live in the capital.

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von Wiebeking introduced the systematic rehabilitation of sediment transporting rivers. He thus was mainly involved in the Isar River downstream of Munich, and the Danube River around the city of Dillingen. He also proposed methods of river engineering for the Inn River between the Tyrol County and Rosenheim. von Wiebeking made a project on the connection between the systems of the Rivers Rhine and Danube. His 1798 book is worthwhile to read for the early description of hydraulic engineering in German, which was succeeded in 1811 by a four volumes edition containing also contributions of his son Carl Gustav. von Wiebeking's book may be considered a predecessor of those of Johann Albert Eytelwein (1764-1848) and Gotthilf Hagen (1797-1884).

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_{Wiebeking, K.F. von (1792). Beiträge zum praktischen Wasserbau und zur Maschienenlehre.}

_{Dänzer: Düsseldorf.}

_{Wiebeking, K.F. von (1798). Wasserbaukunst Allgemeine auf Geschichte und Erfahrung gegründete theoretisch-practische Wasserbaukunst. Darmstadt.}

_{Wiebeking, K.F. von (1834). Kanal zwischen Donau und Mayn. München.}