Edward Jan Habich

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Edward Jan Habich (Spanish: Eduardo de Habich) (31 January 1835, Warsaw – 31 October 1909, Lima, Peru) was a Polish engineer and mathematician.[1] In 1876, he founded the National University of Engineering (Spanish: Universidad Nacional de Ingeniería), a renowned engineering school in Lima, Peru.[2] He was a member of the Peruvian Geographic Society and an Honorary Citizen of Peru. In his native Poland he took part in the January Uprising against the Russian Empire in 1863.

Edward Jan Habich
Born(1835-01-31)January 31, 1835
Warsaw, Poland
DiedOctober 31, 1909(1909-10-31) (aged 74)
Lima, Peru
NationalityPolish

Burial

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Edward Jan Habich is buried at the Cementerio Presbítero Matías Maestro, Lima, Peru.

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References

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  1. ^ Jacques Philippon; Jacques Poirier (25 November 2008). Joseph Babinski : A Biography: A Biography. Oxford University Press, USA. pp. 61–. ISBN 978-0-19-970871-0.
  2. ^ Polish Perspectives. Pałac Kultury i Nauki. 1978.
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