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    literature, and social and political sciences. It is locally still known as Polytechnikum, or simply as Poly, derived from the original name eidgenössische polytechnische...
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  • Johannes Kepler, with the institution taking on the name Johannes-Kepler-Polytechnikum. It was intended to enable young people in the region to train as engineers...
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    Mileva Marić-Einstein Mileva Marić-Ajnštajn Alma mater Eidgenössisches Polytechnikum, Zürich (known today as ETH, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule),...
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    in the "Baudirektion" (building authority) in Linz, he attended the Polytechnikum in Vienna from 1825 until 1829. He stayed there until 1834 as an assistant...
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    universities of Bonn, Königsberg, Zürich, and Göttingen. At the Eidgenössische Polytechnikum, today the ETH Zurich, he was one of Einstein's teachers. Minkowski...
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    aerial vehicles. In 1878, Rudolf Diesel, who was a student at the "Polytechnikum" in Munich, attended the lectures of Carl von Linde. Linde explained...
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    also called Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich or ETH (the "Polytechnikum", also at Zurich). In the early 1890s, with his students Fritz Laager...
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  • renamed the Royal Saxon Polytechnic Institute (Königlich-Sächsisches Polytechnikum). At that time, subjects not connected with technology, such as history...
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    Awards Davy Medal (1891) Scientific career Institutions Polytechnikum of Stuttgart, Polytechnikum of Zurich, University of Heidelberg, University of Göttingen...
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  • systems. He was born in Alzey in Germany and studied engineering at the Polytechnikum Karlsruhe. in 1868 he left Germany by ship from Bremerhaven for the...
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    held a professorship in Botany at the university. He studied at the Polytechnikum in Hannover with the influential architect-professor Conrad Wilhelm...
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    Mulhouse, then between 1873 and 1877 studied civil engineering at the Polytechnikum Zürich under Carl Culmann. In 1876 he became a citizen of Zurich ("Zürcher...
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    (1776–1847); his two brothers also became professors. He first studied at the Polytechnikum (which today is the University of Stuttgart) and then in 1877 went to...
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    England. He was a professor of archaeology and the history of art at the Polytechnikum in Zürich, where he died 16 years later. Hermann Köchly first fled to...
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    named an associate professor of electrochemistry at the Eidgenössische Polytechnikum in Zurich. During the following year he attained a full professorship...
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    Eiffel Tower, including Maurice Koechlin, a young graduate of the Zurich Polytechnikum, who was engaged to undertake calculations and make drawings, and Émile...
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    precision mechanic. His friend, J. Gustav Schmidt, studied chemistry at the Polytechnikum of Zurich (ETH), and their cooperation in conducting experiments led...
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  • electro-technology. Küpfmüller was born in Nuremberg, where he studied at the Ohm-Polytechnikum. After returning from military service in World War I, he worked at...
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    take up an appointment as an ordinary professor at the Eidgenössische Polytechnikum. For seventeen years, between 1875 and 1892, Frobenius worked in Zürich...
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    mother was a hat maker. He received his engineering education at the Polytechnikum in Zürich, Switzerland. He studied with Swiss engineer Wilhelm Ritter...
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    professor of the history of literature in ate Königlich-Sächsischen Polytechnikum of inesden. His publications include the compilation Fünfzig Jahre deutscher...
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    Born in Frankfurt, Ochs first studied medicine and chemistry at the Polytechnikum Darmstadt (today the Technische Universität Darmstadt) and at the Ruprecht...
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    Geiser studied for four semesters from 1859 to 1861 at the Zürich Polytechnikum and then went to Berlin for four semesters from 1861 to 1863 to study...
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    the insurance company and by local banks. Groundbreaking for the new Polytechnikum took place on 15 May 1865 and lectures started during the Franco-Prussian...
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    Schellenberg was born in Hottingen. He studied at the Eidgenössisches Polytechnikum Zürich (1890–93) and the University of Berlin (1893–95), where he was...
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    departure of Frobenius, Hurwitz took a chair at the Eidgenössische Polytechnikum Zürich (today the ETH Zürich) in 1892 (having to turn down a position...
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    Bluntschli commenced his architectural education in 1860 at the Zürich Polytechnikum (now ETH Zurich) under Gottfried Semper, and later (1864) attended the...
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  • Odessa, but left to take a course in civil engineering at the Zurich Polytechnikum, from which he was graduated in 1876. Returning to Russia in 1879, von...
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    Goldschmidt, (1857–1937) was a physical chemist at the Eidgenössisches Polytechnikum and his mother, Amelie Koehne (1864–1929), was the daughter of a lumber...
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    painter of animals and August's first teacher. August then went to the Polytechnikum of Würzburg, before moving to Munich in 1853 to study under Fritz Bamberger...
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