Cornelis Lely
Dutch civil servant
Died when: 74 years 121 days (891 months)Star Sign: Libra
Cornelis Lely (Dutch pronunciation: [k?r'ne?l?s 'le?li]; 23 September 1854 – 22 January 1929) was a Dutch politician of the Liberal Union (LU) and civil engineer.
He oversaw the passage of an act of parliament authorising construction of the Zuiderzee Works, a huge project – designed to his own plans – that turned the Zuiderzee into a lake and made possible the conversion of a vast area of former seabed into dry land.
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