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Agustín de Betancourt

1758 - 1824

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Agustín de Betancourt y Molina (1 February 1758 – 24 July 1824) was a Spanish engineer, who worked in Spain, France and Russia. His work ranged from steam engines and balloons to structural engineering and urban planning. As an educator, Betancourt founded and managed the Spanish Corps of Civil Engineers and the Saint Petersburg Institute of Communications Engineers. As an urban planner and construction manager, Betancourt supervised planning and construction in Saint Petersburg, Kronstadt, Nizhny Novgorod and other Russian cities. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Agustín de Betancourt is the 186th most popular engineer (up from 211th in 2019), the 1,061st most popular biography from Spain (up from 1,129th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Spanish Engineer.

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Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, Agustín de Betancourt ranks 186 out of 389. Before him are Ma Jun, Kerim Kerimov, Gotthilf Hagen, Pierre Charles L'Enfant, Pierre-Paul Riquet, and Kelly Johnson. After him are Genichi Taguchi, Eduard Totleben, Louis Dollo, Jorge Chávez, Marc Isambard Brunel, and Jacques Antoine Charles Bresse.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1758, Agustín de Betancourt ranks 24. Before him are Carl Friedrich Zelter, Charles Lee, Carle Vernet, 8th Dalai Lama, Ryōkan, and Elizabeth Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire. After him are Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz, Duke Eugen of Württemberg, Francisco Javier Castaños, 1st Duke of Bailén, Jean Joseph Mounier, Valentin Vodnik, and Peter Andreas Heiberg. Among people deceased in 1824, Agustín de Betancourt ranks 31. Before him are Caesar Augustus Rodney, Charles Maturin, Countess Palatine Maria Anna of Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld, Blasius Merrem, Princess Antoinette of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, and Elizabeth Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire. After him are Fyodor Alekseyev, Hans Nielsen Hauge, André Thouin, Lachlan Macquarie, Ludwig Wilhelm Gilbert, and François Levaillant.

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In Spain

Among people born in Spain, Agustín de Betancourt ranks 1,061 out of 3,355. Before him are Abu al-Qasim Muhammad ibn Abbad (984), Xavier Montsalvatge (1912), Joaquín Sabina (1949), Julieta Serrano (1933), Alexandre-Émile Béguyer de Chancourtois (1820), and Quique Sánchez Flores (1965). After him are Ignacio Ramonet (1943), Felicia of Roucy (1060), Jerónimo Zurita y Castro (1512), Kate Brown (1960), Joseíto (1926), and Juan Pizarro (1511).

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Among ENGINEERS In Spain

Among engineers born in Spain, Agustín de Betancourt ranks 4. Before him are José Echegaray (1832), Ildefons Cerdà (1815), and Álvaro del Portillo (1914).

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