INGARDEN, Roman

Ingarden studied from 1871 to 1876 at a Czech College in Vienna. Until 1888 he worked in a hydrologic engineering department of a construction company in StarosteiI v Przemyśl. From 1886 to 1889 he was conducting measurements on the river Wisla and participated in the first government project that extended over the upper stream of the river and its secondary riverbed. Between 1891 and 1895 he taught construction at the School of Crafts in Krakow.
From 1905 onward he was in charge of the hydrologic engineering department and took over the entire technical department in Galicia. He was in charge of regulation work aimed towards protecting Krakow from floods, among other things; he also instigated the construction of aqueducts in Nowy Sącz and Tarnów. As the director of Krakow’s aqueduct, he planned its construction from 1898 to 1900. From 1901 to 1912 Ingarden worked as a special technical emissary of the state governor in a committee for regulating river streams in Galicia. The regulation of Carpathian affluents, Wisla and Dnestr, were set up under his tenure.
In 1911 Ingarden was cooperating with a committee that planned the regulation of river basins from Vorokhta to the border of Bucovina. In 1912 he founded his own civil engineer office. Between 1916 and 1918 he was chief of the technical department of the State Centre for the Economic Renovation of Galicia, which was completely destroyed in the war. When Poland regained its independence in 1918, Indegarden moved to Warsaw, where he was in charge of the Department for the Regulation of River Streams at the Ministry of Commerce and Trade. He cooperated with the Polish congressional chamber, preparing numerous technical reports for Polish delegates in Versailles. He led the Polish committee that discussed border limits with Germany regarding the right bank of Wisla’s lower stream and the free city of Gdansk.
Between 1919 and 1924 Indegarden was chairman of the General Directorate for River Stream Regulation at the Ministry of Public Works in Warsaw. In 1924 he returned to Krakow and in 1925 he was in charge of the Woiwodski Council for Hydrologic Engineering Affairs. The very same year he prepared the regulation project of Wisla for the Polish government.
From 1902 to 1909 he was performing the duties of vice-president of the Polytechnic Association in Lwow; from 1910 to 1912 he was its president and from then on its honorary member. In 1920 the Czech College in Lwow awarded him the title Honorary Doctor of Bohemian Sciences, and in 1922 he was awarded the Commander’s Cross of Polonia Restituta.