Edward Jan Habich

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

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.

Burial[]

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

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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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