On January 10, 1802, in Venice (then part of the Habsburg Monarchy or Empire), was born to parents of Albanian origin, Karl Ritter von Ghega or in Albanian KARL GEGA, the designer of the Semmering Railway from Gloggnitz to Mürzzuschlag.
During his time, he was the most prominent of Austrian railway engineers and architects. His father Anton Ghega, was an Albanian who was an officer in the Imperial Navy.
In 1851, Ghega was knighted (Ritter) for his services to the country, and in 1853 he was made chief of planning for the whole railway network of the Austrian Empire.
Karl Ritter von Ghega was next assigned to the building of a railway in Transylvania, but he could not see this project to its end because of his death in Vienna from tuberculosis, on March 14, 1860.
Karl Gega’s remains are located in the pantheon of the most prominent people of Austria, near Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Strauss, Brahms, and Alois Negrell.
📷 1: Memorial for Carl Ritter von Ghega at Semmering railway station.
📷 2: Karl Ritter von Ghega by Joseph Kriehuber, 1840.
📷 3: Karl Ritter von Ghega by Joseph Kriehuber, 1851.
📷 4: Karl Ritter von Ghega on a postage stamp of 1840.
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📷 5: Austria’s 20 schilling banknote from 1967 with a portrait of Carl Ritter von Ghega in the front and Semmering railway on the back.
📷 6: Sheets of postage stamps dedicated to 210th anniversary of Karl Ritter von Gega’s birth, published on January 10, 2012.
📷 7: The bust of Karl Ritter von Ghega in the Trieste Central railway station.
📷 8: The Tomb of Karl Ritter von Ghega at the Vienna Central Cemetery (Wiener Zentralfriedhof).
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📷 9: A postcard from 1952, with Karl Ritter von Ghega stamp on it.
