Ábrahám Ganz, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Ábrahám Ganz

Hungarian engineer

Date of Birth: 06-Nov-1814

Place of Birth: Embrach, canton of Zürich, Switzerland

Date of Death: 15-Dec-1867

Profession: engineer, inventor

Nationality: Hungary, Switzerland

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Ábrahám Ganz (born as Abraham Ganz, 6 November 1814, Unter-Embrach, Switzerland - 15 December 1867, Pest, Austria-Hungary) was a Swiss-born Hungarian iron manufacturer, machine and technical engineer, entrepreneur, father of Ganz Works.
He was the founder and the manager of the company that he made the flagship of the Hungarian economy in the 19th century.
Despite his early death in 1867 the company remained one of the strongest manufacturing enterprise in Austria-Hungary.
Many famous engineers worked at Ganz Works inter alia Károly Zipernowsky, Ottó Bláthy, Miksa Déri, András Mechwart, Kálmán Kandó, Donát Bánki, János Csonka and Theodore von Kármán and several world-famous inventions were done there, like the first railway electric traction, or the invention of the roller mill, the carburetor, the transformer and the Bánki-Csonka engine.