Friedrich Engesser
(1848-1931)

Friedrich Engesser was a German railway and bridge engineer. Later, he became a professor at the Karlsruhe Polytechnical Institute, where he made important advances in the theory of structures, especially in buckling and energy methods.

From Mechanics of Materials, 4th Ed., by J.M. Gere and S.P. Timoshenko, PWS Publishing, 1997, pp. 835-42.