Maurice Koechlin

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Maurice Koechlin was a Swiss-French structural engineer best known as the chief designer behind the iron framework of the Eiffel Tower.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf French person
Swiss person
human
structural engineer
centuryOfActivity 19th century
20th century
citizenship France
Switzerland
collaboratedWith Gustave Eiffel
Émile Nouguier
countryOfBirth France
countryOfDeath Switzerland
dateOfBirth 1856-03-08
dateOfDeath 1946-01-14
designed structural concept for the Eiffel Tower
educatedAt École Polytechnique Fédérale de Zurich
employer Compagnie des Établissements Eiffel
Gustave Eiffel’s engineering company
ethnicGroup Alsatian
familyName Koechlin
fieldOfWork civil engineering
structural engineering
gender male
givenName Maurice
knownFor chief designer of the iron framework of the Eiffel Tower
contributions to the structural design of the Statue of Liberty’s framework
design work on the Eiffel Tower
languageSpoken French
German
name Maurice Koechlin
nationality French
Swiss
notableWork Eiffel Tower
Statue of Liberty internal structure (as part of Eiffel’s firm)
occupation engineer
structural engineer
placeOfBirth Alsace
Buhl, Haut-Rhin
placeOfDeath Veytaux
residence Paris
Veytaux


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