Edward Jan Habich ( es, Eduardo de Habich) (31 January 1835,

Warsaw Warsaw ( pl, Warszawa, ), officially the Capital City of Warsaw,, abbreviation: ''m.st. Warszawa'' is the capital and largest city of Poland. The metropolis stands on the River Vistula in east-central Poland, and its population is officia ...

– 31 October 1909,

Lima Lima ( ; ), originally founded as Ciudad de Los Reyes (City of The Kings) is the capital and the largest city of Peru. It is located in the valleys of the Chillón, Rímac and Lurín Rivers, in the desert zone of the central coastal part of ...

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) was a Polish

engineer Engineers, as practitioners of engineering, are professionals who invent, design, analyze, build and test machines, complex systems, structures, gadgets and materials to fulfill functional objectives and requirements while considering the limit ...

and

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. In 1876, he founded the National University of Engineering ( es, Universidad Nacional de Ingeniería), a renowned engineering school in Lima, Peru. He was a member of the Peruvian Geographic Society and an Honorary Citizen of

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. In his native Poland he took part in the January Uprising against the Russian Empire in 1863.

Burial

Edward Jan Habich is buried at the Cementerio Presbítero Matías Maestro, Lima, Peru.

Gallery

Eduardo de Habich bust in Lima, Peru.jpg, Bust of Edward Jan Habich at the National University of Engineering in Lima, Peru Lima_peru_presbitero_habich_2.jpg, Sarcophagus of Eduardo Juan de Habich, Lima, Perú.

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* 1835 births 1909 deaths Engineers from Warsaw 19th-century Polish scholars Polish mathematicians Emigrants from the Russian Empire to Peru {{Poland-mathematician-stub