Adolph Giesl-Gieslingen, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Adolph Giesl-Gieslingen

Austrian locomotive designer

Date of Birth: 07-Sep-1903

Place of Birth: Trento, Trentino-South Tyrol, Italy

Date of Death: 11-Feb-1992

Profession: engineer

Nationality: Austria

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Adolph Giesl-Gieslingen (7 September 1903 – 11 February 1992) was an Austrian locomotive designer and engineer.
Giesl-Gieslingen was born in 1903 in Trient, Tirol, and studied at the Technical College in Vienna.
In 1924 he published a technical article on smokebox design and chimneys.
In 1925 he received his diploma as an engineer, and began working as a design engineer at the Floridsdorf locomotive works, where he was involved in the construction of the Class 214 2-8-4s.
While at Floridorf he continued his studies, being interested in developing the rectangular chimney design developed by Golsdorf in Austria, and finished his doctoral thesis on locomotive front-end design in 1929.