Rudolf Eickemeyer, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Rudolf Eickemeyer

French military engineer

Date of Birth: 11-Mar-1753

Place of Birth: Mainz, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

Date of Death: 09-Sep-1825

Profession: writer, military personnel, politician, combat engineer, mathematician, university teacher, philosopher

Nationality: France, Germany

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

Jean Marie Rodolphe Eickemeyer, also called Heinrich Maria Johann Rudolf Eickemeyer, was an engineer, mathematician, and general of the French Revolutionary Wars.
Eickemeyer was born on 11 March 1753 in Mainz, and died 9 September 1825 in Gau-Algesheim, a town in the Mainz-Bingen district of present-day Rhineland-Palatinate.
Originally in the service of the Elector of Mainz, after the fall of Mainz in 1792, he served in the French Republican Army, attaining the rank of general of brigade, and commanded a division at the Siege of Kehl (1796–97).
He left French service in 1799 and retired to Mainz, but found no employment there.
He moved to his hometown, where he served two terms as mayor, and was elected as a deputy to the Chamber of the Grand Duchy of Hesse.