Ludwig Martens made a career in technology at a time when the terms of that career were still being set.
The record lists Ludwig Martens as Russian Marxist revolutionary, Soviet diplomat and engineer (1874-1948).
Ludwig Martens was born at Bakhmut in 1875. His recorded nationality is the Russian Empire. He was educated at Saint Petersburg State Institute of Technology and Technische Universität Berlin.
Around the turn of the twentieth century, national institutions, mass media and mass politics changed both the scale of a career and its risks.
He worked as diplomat, engineer and politician.
Technology is judged by adoption: an invention nobody uses is a curiosity.
Working from the Russian Empire shaped what was possible - the audiences within reach, the institutions that would have him, the language the work first appeared in.
Ludwig Martens died in 1948, aged 73. What survives is the work, which is the only durable form of a reputation.
Achievements
- Educated at Saint Petersburg State Institute of Technology, Technische Universität Berlin and Kursk Real School
- Worked as diplomat, engineer and politician
