J%C3%B3zsef Kiss (engineer)
Jzsef Kiss was a Hungarian hydrotechnical engineer. He is most famous for being the architect of the Great Baka Canal, the most important hydrotechnical and transport object in Baka. Later architects of the hydrosystem DanubeTisaDanube Canal based their work on his ideas and projects.
Jzsef Kiss was born in Buda onMarch 1748. in a family of military officers, that obtained nobility status in 1681 with the predicate Kissarosi. Together with his brother Gabor he graduated from the famous military academy in Vienna founded by Eugene of Savoy. After his student days, in 1768, he set off on a study trip to Great Britain, where the construction of a branched system of navigable channels had already begun.
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