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François Hennebique

1842 - 1921

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François Hennebique (26 April 1842 – 7 March 1921) was a French engineer and self-educated builder who patented his pioneering reinforced-concrete construction system in 1892, integrating separate elements of construction, such as the column and the beam, into a single monolithic element. The Hennebique system was one of the first appearances of the modern reinforced-concrete method of construction. Hennebique had first worked as a stonemason, later becoming a builder, with a particular interest in restoration of old churches. Hennebique's Béton Armé system started out by using concrete as a fireproof protection for wrought iron beams, on a house project in Belgium in 1879. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. François Hennebique is the 199th most popular engineer (up from 210th in 2019), the 3,498th most popular biography from France (up from 3,505th in 2019) and the 33rd most popular French Engineer.

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Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, François Hennebique ranks 199 out of 389. Before him are Joseph Strauss, Alexey Sudayev, Sergei Tumansky, Philippe LeBon, Jean-Baptiste Élie de Beaumont, and Alexander Lodygin. After him are Vasily Mishin, Adolphe Alphand, Eugene Stoner, Arthur Morin, Evgeny Paton, and Franz Grashof.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1842, François Hennebique ranks 63. Before him are Emil Christian Hansen, Eloy Alfaro, Carl Millöcker, Jean-Jules-Antoine Lecomte du Nouÿ, Alessandro Fortis, and Stojan Novaković. After him are Wilhelm Jordan, Ellen Swallow Richards, Antero de Quental, Joseph Valentin Boussinesq, Princess Alexandrine of Prussia, and Berthold Delbrück. Among people deceased in 1921, François Hennebique ranks 75. Before him are Pierre Cuypers, José Miguel Gómez, Andrea Carlo Ferrari, August Nilsson, Franz Defregger, and Francisco Pradilla Ortiz. After him are Déodat de Séverac, Max Noether, Alexander Dutov, William Speirs Bruce, E. W. Hornung, and Eduardo Dato.

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In France

Among people born in France, François Hennebique ranks 3,498 out of 6,770. Before him are Thomas of Britain (1200), William of Jumièges (1000), Charles de Saint-Évremond (1613), Georges Urbain (1872), Claude Abbes (1927), and Claude Miller (1942). After him are Jean-François Revel (1924), Marie-Eugénie de Jésus (1817), Élisabeth Marguerite d'Orléans (1646), Hugues Aufray (1929), Raël (1946), and François-Auguste Biard (1799).

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Among ENGINEERS In France

Among engineers born in France, François Hennebique ranks 33. Before him are Louis Dollo (1857), Jorge Chávez (1887), Marc Isambard Brunel (1769), Jacques Antoine Charles Bresse (1822), Philippe LeBon (1767), and Jean-Baptiste Élie de Beaumont (1798). After him are Adolphe Alphand (1817), Arthur Morin (1795), Evgeny Paton (1870), Émile Levassor (1843), Michel Chevalier (1806), and Robert Esnault-Pelterie (1881).

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