100th birthday - Austria / II. Republic of Austria 1983 - 3 Shilling

The founder of scientific civil engineering, Karl Terzaghi, was born on October 2, 1883 in Prague, the son of Lieutenant Colonel Anton von Terzaghi. He decided against a military career and first studied mechanical engineering at Graz University of Technology. At the same time he attended seminars at the university on philosophy, astronomy and geology. After earning his doctorate in 1911, he visited America for the first time, where he worked as part of a major irrigation program. During the First World War he first served on the Serbian front, later he was known as k.u.k. Lieutenant transferred the expansion of the technical airfield equipment in Aspern. After the war, he accepted a teaching assignment at the American Robert College in Istanbul, where he built an earthworks laboratory. In 1925, his fundamental book "Erdbaumechanik on ground physics basis" was published in Vienna, which today is regarded as a relevant classic. In 1929, Terzaghi was appointed to the Chair of Hydraulic Engineering II of the Vienna University of Technology. Thus, the Vienna University of Technology immediately became the center of soil mechanical research. In the following decades, until the end of his teaching career in 1956, Terzaghi constantly expanded his research in the field of soil mechanics and wrote more than 100 scientific publications. He died on October 25, 1963 in Cambridge / Massachusetts.