{{Short description|Austrian-born German educator}} {{Use British English |date=November 2024}} {{Use dmy dates |date=November 2024}} {{Expand German|topic=bio|Karl Karmarsch|date=August 2013}} {{Infobox person | name = Karl Karmarsch<!-- use common name/article title --> | image = Dr Karl Karmarsch.jpg | alt = <!-- descriptive text for use by speech synthesis (text-to-speech) software --> | caption = | birth_date = {{Birth date |1803|10|17|df=yes}} | birth_place = Vienna, Austria | death_date = {{Death date and age|1879|3|24|1803|10|17|df=yes}} | death_place = Hanover, Prussia | other_names = | occupation = | years_active = | known_for = | notable_works = }} '''Karl Karmarsch''' (17 October 1803{{snd}}24 March 1879) was an Austrian-born (since 1830) German educator, founding director of the Polytechnic School in Hanover, later to become the Leibniz University Hannover.
From 1817 to 1823, he was associated with the Polytechnic Institute of Vienna, where he was a student of Georg Altmütter (1787–1858). From 1830 until his retirement in 1875, he served as director at Hanover, In 1863, he was elected a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
left|thumb|Bronze statue of Karmarsch in Hanover Karmarsch was a promoter of higher technical education in Germany, and considered a pioneer of mechanical technology.<ref name=AE>{{cite web |title=Karmarsch, Karl |year=2024 |website=Österreich-Lexikon |url=http://www.aeiou.at/aeiou.encyclop.k/k165739.htm |access-date=2024-11-09 }}</ref> With Johann Joseph von Prechtl (1778–1854), he was an editor of a multi-volume encyclopedia of technology called {{lang|de|Technologische Encyklopädie oder alphabetisches Handbuch der Technologie, der technischen Chemie und des Maschinenwesens}}.<ref>{{cite Q |Q131100857 |mode=cs1}}</ref> Other principal works by Karmarsch include: * {{lang|de|Grundriß der mechanischen Technologie}}, two volumes 1837/41 - Outline of mechanical technology. * {{lang|de|Geschichte Der Technologie Seit Der Mitte Des Achtzehnten Jahrhundert}}, 1872 - History of technology since the mid-eighteenth century.<ref name=AE/>
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== External links == * [https://web.archive.org/web/20110614174835/http://www.uni-hannover.de/de/universitaet/geschichte/karmarsch/leben/index.php Biographical timeline at Hannover University website] {{in lang|de}} * de.Wikisource (bibliography)
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