Edward Jan Habich
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Edward Jan Habich (Template:Langx) (31 January 1835, Warsaw – 31 October 1909, Lima, Peru) was a Polish engineer and mathematician.<ref name="PhilipponPoirier2008">Template:Cite book</ref> In 1876, he founded the National University of Engineering (Template:Langx), a renowned engineering school in Lima, Peru.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> He was a member of the Peruvian Geographic Society and an Honorary Citizen of Peru. In his native Poland he took part in the January Uprising against the Russian Empire in 1863.
Burial
Edward Jan Habich is buried at the Cementerio Presbítero Matías Maestro, Lima, Peru.
Gallery
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Bust of Edward Jan Habich at the National University of Engineering in Lima, Peru
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Sarcophagus of Eduardo Juan de Habich, Lima, Perú.
