Théophile Seyrig

Théophile Seyrig
Seyrig, circa 1890.
Born	François Gustave Théophile Seyrig (1843-02-19)19 February 1843 Berlin, Germany
Died	5 July 1923(1923-07-05) (aged 80)
Alma mater	École Centrale Paris

François Gustave Théophile Seyrig (19 February 1843 – 5 July 1923) was a German-born Belgian engineer, best known for designing bridges.

On 6 October 1868, he founded Eiffel and Company with Gustave Eiffel. Seyrig contributed to the Eiffel and Company project to build the Maria Pia Bridge in Porto, Portugal, which was finished in 1877. Seyrig presented a paper on the bridge to the Société des Ingénieurs Civils in 1878.

Later he worked for the Belgian firm Société Willebroeck in Brussels, and won the competition to build the Dom Luís I Bridge (also in Porto), beating the Eiffel proposal. He began construction in 1881 and the bridge was finished in 1886.

Works

• Maria Pia Bridge
• Dom Luís I Bridge
• Neuvial Viaduct
• Rouzat Viaduct

• Bridges of Porto
• 
  Maria Pia Bridge (1877).
• 
  Dom Luís I Bridge (1886).

Writings

• (in French) Seyrig, Théophile. Pont d. Luiz I. à Porto, Librairie centrales des chemins de fer, Paris, 1884
• (in French) Seyrig, Théophile. Éléments de statique graphique appliquée aux constructions, Baudry, Paris, 1886; pp. 392

References

• "Théophile Seyrig" (in French). Structurae. Retrieved 5 September 2012.
• Manuel de Azeredo (1998). "Théophile Seyrig" (in Portuguese). FEUP. Retrieved 5 September 2012.
• José Manuel Lopes Cordeiro (2009). "Ponte Maria Pia: Uma ponte de Eiffel ... e Seyrig" (PDF) (in Portuguese). Universidade do Minho. Retrieved 5 September 2012. (570 KB)

Bibliography

• (in Portuguese) Ponte Maria Pia, Ordem dos Engenheiros, Região Norte, ISBN 972956468X, 2005