General Information
Alexandre-Gustave Eiffel was the Architect and French engineer born on December 15, 1832, in Dijon and died at age 91 years old on December 28, 1923, in Paris. His parent was Catherine Melanie Moineuse and François Alexandre Boenickhausen. He famous for Architect, Civil Engineer, He also a founder/ Co-Founder: Eiffel & Cie.
Childhood & Early Life
The family came from a region near the Eifel mountains and adopted the name “Eiffel”. He spent most of his childhood with his grandmother. He studied at the ‘Lycee Royal’ in Dijon and earned his baccalaureate in science and humanities. He also had friend and uncle to teach Gustave philosophy, theology, chemistry, and mining.
To prepare himself for the difference entrance exams of engineering colleges he joined the College Sainte-Barbe in Paris. In 1855 he completed his graduation earning the thirteenth position out of eighty candidates.
Career
After completing his graduation he did an unpaid job for a few months to assist his brother-in-law in a foundry. He got his first paid job as the secretary 
of Charles Nepveu, a railway engineer. When the company of Nepveu became bankrupt, he arranged for a bridge design work for Eiffel that was to be constructed for the ‘Saint Germaine’ railway. His reputation as an architect and civil engineer got him more projects and he established his own workshop in 1866 and undertook projects in different countries. One such project was an all-metal construction of the church of San Marcos in Arica, Chil
Various parts of the project were manufactured in France and shipped to the site to be assembled there. His technical innovations were path-breaking (specially prefabrication of cantilever constructions).
His most noted masterpiece that bears his name and went on to become one of his prominent works is the ‘Eiffel Tower’. Eiffel is most famous for what would become known as the Eiffel Tower, which was begun in 1887 for the 1889 Universal Exposition in Paris. The tower is composed of 12000 different components and 2500000, all designed and assembled to handle wind pressure. If it were melted down, the tower’s metal would only fill up its base about two and a half inches deep.
The Eiffel could build the world’s tallest structure(at 984 feet) in just two years and torn by the tower’s unique design, most deriding it as hideously modern and useless. The tower also directed Eiffel’s interest in the field of aerodynamics.
Eiffel turned his interest to meteorology in his final years, studying the subject at length before his death on December 28, 1923
Awards & Achievements
Thought out Eiffel career he designed and constructed a number of great structures, in one of the structures was the most famous and iconic structures is the world-famous Eiffel Tower. Also in 1912, the ‘Smithsonian Institution’ honored him with the ‘Samuel P.Langley Medal for Prodromic’ award.
Personal Life & Legacy
On July 8th, 1862 he got married to Marie Gaudelet. They remained married for fifteen years and had five children together (three girls, and two boys) before Marie caught pneumonia and died in 1887. Gustave never married any woman again. On the day Gustave dies, on December 28, 1923, while in his mansion on ‘Rue Rabelais’ in Paris and was buried in ‘ Levallois-Perret Cemetery’ in the family tomb.
3 defining principles/characteristics/values
Some characteristics that he had that make his goal success, are have, He becomes a high earning graduate students so people truth him and give him chance. He also determines to study day in and day out until he great at it. He is an intelligence how he works and how his think, He also put his full effort into every project that he had been working on. “In 1855 he completed his graduation earning the thirteenth position out of eighty candidates.” He many interests in the variety of subject. In his early life, he takes many interests like philosophy, theology, chemistry, and mining, even before his death that other subject with him. This makes him become a success people by having more knowledge so he can do anything he wants by using the skill that he had After the Eiffel Tower was built he had changed his interest in meteorology in his final years, studying the subject at length before his death on December 28, 1923. In his life, he had married with a woman and stay loyal to her all the time. So that makes people truth him and had him rise about everyone else. Other may think he loyal to his hard work with his job. He loyal because they saw the project like his life, If he to do it he will give it everything to finishing it with loyalty.
Works Cited
“Alexandre Gustave Eiffel.” American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), www.asce.org/templates/person-bio-detail.aspx?id=11166.
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“Gustave Eiffel.” Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 11 Sept. 2018, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustave_Eiffel.
TheBiography.us. “Biography of Alexandre-Gustave Eiffel <Small>(1832-1923)</Small>.” TheBiography.us, thebiography.us/en/eiffel-alexandre-gustave.
“Who Is Gustave Eiffel? Everything You Need to Know.” Childhood, Life Achievements & Timeline, www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/gustave-eiffel-6809.php.