Karel Gangloff - Bilovice nad Svitavou, Czech Republic
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N 49° 16.034 E 016° 39.795
33U E 620999 N 5458494
CZ: pamatnik Karela Gangloffa // EN: Citizen Memorial Karel Gangloff
Waymark Code: WMN7F3
Location: Jihomoravský kraj, Czechia
Date Posted: 01/12/2015
Published By:Groundspeak Regular Member Dunbar Loop
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CZ:
Karel Daniel Gangloff (1809 v Praze – 1879 asi v Rožmitále pod Tremšínem) byl ceský lesník a vynálezce. Vynalézal predevším prístroje pro zememericství a stroje na zpracování drevní hmoty. Pro velký rozsah jeho vynálezu byl nazýván také ceským Archimédem.
K. G. Gangloff se narodil v roce 1809 v Praze jako jedno z dvojcat v rodine arcibiskupského hofmistra. Studoval na pražské polytechnice, po studiích pracoval jako lesník v Rokytnici, lesní meric a kreslic v Rožmitále pod Tremšínem, polesný Pelhrimovska, vedoucí oddelení lesu pražského arcibiskupství a posléze od roku 1864 jako lesmistr v milovaném Rožmitálsku. Zemrel v roce 1879 a je pohrben ve Starém Rožmitále.

EN:
Karel Daniel Gangloff (1809 Prague - about 1879 in Rozmital pod) was a Czech forester and inventor. Invented especially for surveying instruments and machines for processing wood. For a large range of his inventions was also called Czech Archimede.
KG Gangloff was born in 1809 in Prague as one of the twins in the family of the archbishop's steward. He studied at the Prague Polytechnic, after graduation he worked as a forester in Rokytnici, forest meter and a draftsman in Rozmital pod, forester Pelhrimov, head of the department of forests Prague archbishopric and then from 1864 as a forester in the beloved Rožmitálsku. He died in 1879 and is buried in the Stary Rožmitál.

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Location: Bilovice nad Svitavou

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