Background
MERCAU, Agustín Son of Eliseo Mercau and Javiera Arias de Mercau.
MERCAU, Agustín Son of Eliseo Mercau and Javiera Arias de Mercau.
Professor of physics and chemistry in the Colegio Nacional of San Luis, 1896. Director of the Department of Public Works of the Province of San Luis, 1896. Chief of the commission for the study of the Rio de la Plata and the lower Paraná, 1899.
Alternate professor of metal construction in the Faculty of Exact, Physical, and Natural Sciences of Buenos Aires, 1901.
Titular protessor of applied hydraulics, 1903-1927. At various times member of the Academic and Directive Councils, and dean, of the Faculty of Exact, Physical, and Natural Sciences.
Formerly vice-rector of the University of Buenos Aires and member of the Superior Council of the same. Titular professor of agricultural hydraulics and hydrology and hydraulic machines in the University of Louisiana Plata from the founding of the Chair to 1927.
At one time member of the Academic Council of the same, of the Constituent Convention of the Province of San Luis.
Technical director of drainage works of the Province of Buenos Aires. Inspector general of the National Bureau of Irrigation, 1911. Commissioned by the Argentine government to visit irrigation projects in Europe, Egypt, and the United States, 1911—1912.
Argentine delegate to various scientific congresses in Uruguay, Chile, the United States, et cetera, including the Second Pan American Scientific Congress of Washington, 1916.
At various times adviser and commissioner of the provincial governments of Buenos Aires, Mendoza, Entre Rios, and San Luis on important projects and works of irrigation, drainage, et cetera Author of a project for the canalization of the upper Rio de la Plata to permit the navigation, on the Argentine side, of ocean-going steamers (published in Volume
VI of the Proceedings of the Second Pan-American Scientific Congress of Washington, 1916). As inspector general of irrigation, Senior
Mercau has been connected with the major portion of the irrigation works constructed in Argentina.
Academia Nacional de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales. Academia Americana de la Historia and Academia de la Enseñanza, of Buenos Aires. Academia Literaria del Plata.
Married Maria Carlota Grünewald de Mercau.