Charles siemens biography

German-British engineer and businessman (1823–1883)

"Sir William Siemens" redirects here. For the lake freighter, see SS Sir William Siemens.

Sir Carl Wilhelm SiemensFRS FRSA (4 April 1823 – 19 November 1883), anglicised to Charles William Siemens, was a German-British electrical engineer and businessman.

Biography

Siemens was born in the village of Lenthe, today part of Gehrden, near Hanover where his father, Christian Ferdinand Siemens (31 July 1787 – 16 January 1840), a tenant farmer, farmed an estate belonging to the Crown.

Carl Wilhelm Siemens Biography - Pantheon

The Siemens family is an old family of Goslar which has been documented since 1384. His mother was Eleonore Deichmann (1792–8 July 1839), and William, or Carl Wilhelm, was the fourth son of a family of fourteen children. Of his siblings, Ernst Werner Siemens, the fourth child, became a famous electrician and was associated with William in many of his inventions.

He was also the brother of Carl Heinrich von Siemens and a Charles William Siemens - Students | Britannica Kids ... FUJE