Joseph Amerlinck
Joseph Amerlinck (1862–1915) was a Belgian railway engineer active in Central Africa and South America.
Life
[edit]Amerlinck was born in Ghent on 22 May 1862.[1] After graduating from the School of Civil Engineering of Ghent University, in 1888 he set off for the Congo Free State,[2] to assess the feasibility of building a railway line from Lukungu to Leopoldville.[3] He later worked in Chile, where he briefly taught at the University of Santiago,[4] and for about a decade in Guatemala, as director of a railway.[1] Around 1905 he moved to Mexico, where his descendants became the family Amerlinck y Zirión.[5] He died on 5 February 1915.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c R. Campus, "Amerlinck (Joseph-Marie)", Biographie Nationale de Belgique, vol. 31 (Brussels, 1961), 24.
- ^ A. Engels, "Amerlinck (Joseph-Marie)", in Biographie Coloniale Belge, vol. 2 (1951), 15.
- ^ Marina e commercio e giornale delle colonie, 11:22 (22 May 1888), p. 347.
- ^ A. Lederer, "Amerlinck (Joseph-Marie)", in Biographie Belge d'Outre-Mer, vol. 8 (1998), p. 1.
- ^ Eddy Stols, De Belgen en Mexico (Leuven University Press, 1993), p. 132.