Buxtorf, Emanuel

Emanuel Buxtorf
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Name	Buxtorf, Emanuel Gender: M
born on	2 September 1823 at 04:00 (= 04:00 AM )
Place	Troyes, France, 48n18, 4e05
Timezone	LMT m4e05 (is local mean time)
Data source	Quoted BC/BR Rodden Rating AA Collector: Mandl
Astrology data	08°50' 00°51 Asc. 23°53'

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Emanuel Buxtorf (Circular loom, two-system meshing machines, circa 1890, produced by Emanuel Buxtorf, Musée des Arts et Métiers, rue Réaumur in Paris, 2017)
photo: Frédéric BISSON from Rouen, France, license cc-by-2.0

Biography

French mechanical engineer who started a hosiery machine construction company in 1853 and until 1893 embarked on research and lodged some fifty patents mainly intended to improve the hosiery trades. In particular, he dicovered how to adapt the Jacquard system used for weaving to the mesh.

He founded the French Hosiery School in Troyes in 1888. It operated until 1964 as a private school recognized by the State before becoming the BTS hosiery section of the technical high school in Troyes.

He died on 14 January 1904 at age 80 in Troyes.

Link to Wikipedia biography (French)

Events

• Death, Cause unspecified 14 January 1904 (Age 80)
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Source Notes

Michaël Mandl quotes birth record [1]. Birth place of Saint-Martin-ès-Vignes is today part of Troyes.

Categories

• Vocation : Business : Business owner

• Vocation : Education : Administrator

• Vocation : Engineer : Mechanical

• Notable : Famous : Founder/ originator