Anghel Saligny

Anghel Saligny
Born(1854-04-19)April 19, 1854
DiedJune 17, 1925(1925-06-17) (aged 71)
Citizenship Moldavia
 Kingdom of Romania
Occupation(s)engineer, professor
President of the Romanian Academy (1907-1910)
Board member ofRomanian Academy
SpouseTereza Kohna (Sept. 1876)
FatherAlfred Saligny
Relativesbrother - Alfons Oscar Saligny, chemist, corresponding member of the Romanian Academy


Anghel Saligny (Romanian pronunciation: [ˈaŋɡel saˈliɲi]; 19 April 1854, Șerbănești, Moldavia – 17 June 1925, Bucharest, Romania) was a Romanian engineer, most famous for designing the Fetești-Cernavodă railway bridge (1895) over the Danube, the longest bridge in Europe at that time. He also designed the storage facilities in Constanța seaport, one of the earliest examples of reinforced concrete architecture in Europe.