Alfredo Jahn
| Dr. Alfredo Jahn Hartmann | |
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| Born |
8 October 1867 Caracas, Venezuela |
| Died | 12 July 1940 (aged 72) Caracas, Venezuela |
| Residence | Caracas, Venezuela |
| Nationality | Venezuelan |
| Fields | Civil engineering, botany and geography |
Dr. Alfredo Jahn Hartman (8 October 1867 – 12 July 1940) was a Venezuelan civil engineer, botanist and geographer. Jahn was a member of the Academy of History, the Academy of Physical Sciences, Mathematics and Naturalist of Venezuela and the Venezuelan Society of Natural Sciences and achieved the Order of the Liberator. He was also an explorer and mountain climber. There is a large cave named after Jahn, "Cueva Alfredo Jahn" (The Alfredo Jahn cave). In 1911 he became the first person to ascend Pico Humboldt in the Sierra Nevada de Mérida in Venezuela.
Hartman was the son of Alfredo Federico Jahn (Friedrich Gottfried Alfred Jahn Wassmann), born in Caracas on 10 June 1846, and Eugenia Hartmann, born in Bremen, Germany on 8 July 1847. In 1876 he was taken to Hanover, Germany, and entered the Secondary School of the locality. He continued studies at Torgau, Saxony province, where he received military training. In 1882 he went to Berlin to continue his education for a short time, returning again to the Hannover School of Engineering. For family reasons he was forced to return to Caracas, where he continued studies at the Universidad Central de Venezuela, where he majored in natural sciences under the leadership of Adolf Ernst.
On 25 July 1891 he married Aurelia Lopez. They had a total of 10 children.
Jahn finished his studies at the end of 1886, and became an assistant engineer on railway construction. The following year, he participated in the preliminary studies for the construction of a major railroad between Caracas and Valencia with extension to San Carlos. As a Civil Engineer, he worked with civil engineer and lawyer German Jimenez in the National Plan of Highways and Railroads of Venezuela by order of the National Government. He was responsible for the construction of the railroad from Caracas to Valencia. He also built the highway from Caracas to El Junquito.
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