Frutos Saavedra Meneses

Frutos Saavedra Meneses (25 October 1823 – 23 October 1868) was a Spanish soldier, geodesist and politician.[1]

Biography

He completed his training at the Military Academy in Segovia, where he became an instructor. He reached the rank of colonel.[1]

Incorporated into the artillery corps, he represented this corps in the Spain Map Commission, where he made a friend of Carlos Ibáñez e Ibáñez de Ibero. They designed together a geodetic standard which was made in Paris by Jean Brunner. This instrument was used to measure the central base of the Spanish geodetic network.[1][2][3]

He began his political career as a member of the Liberal Union for the constituency of Coruña and served four terms between 1860 and 1866. In 1864, he was appointed Director General of Public Works.[1]

Saavedra was appointed in 1862 to the Spanish Royal Academy of Sciences because of his geodesic work. In 1867 he was also appointed academician of the Royal Spanish Academy, but was unable to access it due to his untimely death.[1][4]

References
  1. "Frutos Saavedra Meneses | Real Academia de la Historia". dbe.rah.es. Retrieved 21 September 2020.
  2. Expériences faites avec l'appareil à mesurer les bases appertant à la commission de la carte d'Espagne /: ouvrage publié par ordre de la reine (in French). J. Dumaine. 1860.
  3. Ibáñez e Ibáñez de Íbero, Carlos (1825-1891) Auteur du texte (1865). Base centrale de la triangulation géodésique d'Espagne / par D. Carlos Ibañez é Ibañez,... D. Frutos Saavedra Meneses,... D. Fernando Monet,... [et al.] ; trad. de l'espagnol, par A. Taussedat,...
  4. "Frutos Saavedra Meneses (Electo, 1867) | Real Academia Española". www.rae.es. Retrieved 21 September 2020.
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