Studies • the primary classes at the pension in
Focşani of his father - Alfred Saligny, pedagogue of French origin from
Alsace, settled in Romania; • secondary school studies at the future
Unirea high school in
Focşani (1866-1869); • high school studies in
Potsdam, Germany (1869); • astronomy courses at the
Friedrich Wilhelm University in
Berlin, having the famous physicist
Hermann von Helmholtz as a teacher;
Socio-professional activity • after finishing his studies, he worked as an engineer on the construction of the
Cottbus-
Frankfurt (Oder) railway, in
Saxony, and on hydraulic works in northern
Prussia, under the direction of Georg Christoph Mehrtens (1874-1875); • he returned to Romania at the end of 1875, being appointed ordinary engineer 3rd class in the Service of Bridges and Roads on January 1, 1886, and was immediately sent to
Prague for receipts of railway material; • upon returning to the country, he was appointed assistant at the second section of the
Ploiești-
Predeal railway line, fixing his residence in
Câmpina and then in
Breaza, in May 1876; • he designed for the Bucharest City Hall the layout of the alleys next to the
Kiseleff Boulevard (1876); • he was appointed sub-director of the Bridges and Roads Service on April 8, 1881, and on April 27, 1881, he was promoted to first class ordinary engineer; • he was entrusted, in the same year, with the construction works of the railway line
Adjud-
Târgu Ocna; • he was appointed director for construction of the railway lines Adjud-Târgu Ocna and
Bârlad-
Vaslui (June 14, 1882); • he was entrusted with the construction of the iron bridges that had to replace the
wooden bridges that had begun to collapse (March 1883); • he was promoted to chief engineer (May 10, 1883); • he was commissioned by the General Directorate
C.F.R. with the reconstruction of the six large bridges on the
Buzău-
Mărăşeşti line (February 1884); • he was appointed head of the "Bridges and Railways Service" (Oct. 1883), building numerous bridges, including the one in
Cosmești, over
Siret, the first large bridge designed by him - double road and railway bridge long) - as well as those from
Oneşti and
Urecheşti; • he was confirmed head of the Galati and Brăila Docks (October 3, 1884), a position he held until January 1, 1901, during which he coordinated the construction of docks and warehouses in the ports of
Galați and
Brăila; they could contain over 25,000 tons of grain - they were x at the base and over high. The walls of the hexagonal cells of the silos were made, also in a world first, from pieces manufactured on the ground, in the form of plates. Prefabrication of floor slabs, stiffening and junction corners, welding of metal bars and assembly mechanization are other global priorities; • he was appointed professor at the Department of Bridges within the "School of Bridges and Roads" that would become the "Polytechnic School" of Bucharest, (Nov. 1884 - 1914); • he was president of the commissions for the selection of scholarship holders of the "Adamachi" fund for the study of engineering in Romania and of technical specializations abroad; • he was promoted to first class chief engineer on June 16, 1886, and worked on the projects for the
Filiaşi-
Tg Jiu railway; • he designed the
bridge over the Danube from
Cernavodă (1889); • he was promoted to inspector general 2nd class on May 9, 1890, and was appointed to the technical commission of the Bucharest City Hall; • he built a new
standard-gauge Bacău-
Piatra Neamț railway line, replacing the old
narrow-gauge one (1890-1893); • he built the
bridge over the Danube from Cernavodă (October 9, 1890 - September 14/26, 1895); • he was promoted to the rank of general inspector first class (January 1, 1894); • he worked on the consolidation of the bridges over
Râmnic and
Milcov on the
Buzău-
Mărăşeşti railway line; • he was appointed head of the Railway Bridges (April 1, 1892); • he was appointed general director of the Railways (October 7, 1895), a position from which he initiated, in 1895, a law for the reorganization of the Romanian railways and created direct railway routes
Bucharest-
Berlin and
Berlin-
Constanța; • he was appointed director of the Hydraulic department, of the Docks and Works of the
Port of Constanța (13 Aug. 1899); • he built the Ramadan port in
Giurgiu, favoring the export of oil up the Danube and the import of coal and goods for Bucharest; • he was appointed general director of the first Land Improvement Service within the Ministry of Agriculture and Domains, established for the development of land in the flood zone of the Danube and other large rivers in the country (Dec. 21, 1910 – Apr. 1, 1917); • he was elected a member of the Board of Censors of the
National Bank of Romania (February 17, 1913 – June 17, 1925) and of the "Steaua" oil company; • he was director general of Munitions until Romania entered the First World War (Nov. 15, 1915 - Aug. 1916), Minister of Public Works (24 Oct. 1918 – 26 Sept. 1919); • he was part of the boards of directors of "Banca de Scont" and "Banca Marmorosch Blank"; • he took part in the establishment, in 1913, of the first national maritime navigation society "Romania" and of the Romanian Danube Navigation Society, which started operating on March 1. 1914 (he was its president); • he took part in the evacuation of the Romanian treasury in Iași during World War I,
then in Moscow; • he participated in the organization of the Bucharest Communal Tram Company, of which he was the delegated administrator (1909 – June 17, 1925). == Collaborations ==