Leo Kadrnozka | |
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Born | Teschen, Austria | June 6, 1872
Died | 17 September 1922 Großvenediger, Austria | (aged 50)
Nationality | Austrian |
Alma mater | Technical University of Vienna |
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Fields | Electrical engineering |
Institutions | Technical University of Munich |
Thesis | (1896) |
Doctoral advisor | Johann von Radinger Leopold von Hauffe |
Doctoral students | Hans Piloty |
Leo Kadrnozka (June 6, 1872 – September 17, 1922) was a full professor of Electrical Railways and Electrical Switching and Regulating Apparatus at the Technical University of Munich.[1]
Kadrnozka studied mechanical engineering at the Technical University of Vienna from 1892 to 1896 under the supervision of Leopold von Hauffe and Johann von Radinger. In 1896/1897 he worked there as an assistant.[2]
He then worked for the Imperial Royal Austrian State Railways, and from 1898 for the Vienna railway department of Siemens & Halske. There he was involved in the construction of the tramways in Vienna, Budapest, Sarajevo, Salzburg, Olmütz, Dornbirn-Lustenau and the Badner Bahn. In 1907 he moved to AEG Vienna as chief engineer.
In 1907 he accepted a lectureship as honorary professor for Electrical Railways and Electrical Switching and Regulating Apparatus at the Technical University of Munich, and from 1909 he was appointed full professor of electrical engineering.[2] In Munich he supervised the dissertations of Udo Knorr, Hans Piloty and Louis Stokvis.[3]
The passionate mountaineer Kadrnozka died in 1922 while climbing the Großvenediger when he fell into a crevasse.[4]
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