Karl Gustav Brescius, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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German engineer
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Place of Birth: Bautzen, Saxony, Germany
About Karl Gustav Brescius
- Karl Gustav (Guido) Brescius (25 March 1824 – 4 December 1864) was a German railway engineer. He was born in Bautzen, in eastern Saxony, Germany, on 25 March 1824 and studied at the Dresden University of Technology in Saxony.
- Amongst his lecturers were Professor Andreas Schubert.
- Brescius gained his first practical experience as a railway engineer during the construction of the Saxon-Silesian Railway (Sächsisch-Schlesische Eisenbahn) from Dresden to Görlitz.
- For the construction of the Saxon-Bohemian Railway from Dresden to Bodenbach in 1847 Brescius was already the departmental engineer responsible for the section of the route in the area of Königstein.
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