August Jegher
August Jegher (c1843-1924)
1924 Obituary[1]
"Mr. August Jegher.— We regret to record the death in Zurich on February 13, in his eighty-first year, of Mr. August Jegher, a distinguished engineer, for many years editor of our contemporary, the Scheweizerische Bauzeitung. Jegher was born in Trieste, where his father, a clergyman’s son from the Orisons, Switzerland, had settled; his mother was French, and the boy early learnt to speak German, French and Italian. Educated at Weinheim north of Heidelberg, he went to the Zurich Polytechikum, but did not take his diploma, because he was one of the 300 students who left the college in 1864 as a protest against certain administrative rules. After a few years of activity in Austria-Hungary as a railway engineer, he returned to Switzerland where he was mainly interested in the re-organisation of the Polytechnikum and was one of the experts of the Commission on the utilisation of hydro-eletric power in Switzerland. In 1898 ho succeeded his old friend, A. Waldner, as editor of the Schweizerische Bauzeitunq which had grown out of the Eisenbahn founded, by Waldner in 1879 as organ of the Zurich Polyteehnikum. Jegher remained editor till a year ago, when his son, stepped into his place; but he continued to attend regularly at the office until his health began to fail."