Claudius Crozet,  1790-1864.

• Assistant Professor of Engineering, USMA, October 1, 1816 to March 6, 1817.
• Professor of Engineering, USMA, March 6, 1817 to April 28, 1823.
• Resigned April 28, 1823. 
• Member of the Board "to Revise the Programme of Instruction at the Military Academy, January 12-24, 1860. 

There is a portrait of Crozet in the library at Virginia Military Institute.

Crozet, Virginia, is named after Claudius Crozet. Check out the history of the town for another picture of him.
 

Archival Material:

• Beaver Creek to Leatherwood Hills Turnpike field notes by Crozet, 1838. These notes are at the The Library of Virginia,  800 East Broad Street, Richmond, Virginia 23219-8000, (804) 692-3500. Accession number BPW 438. Summary: Field notes consist of a turnpike survey from the mouth of Beaver Creek through Henry County to the Leatherwood hills at Mr. Dick's house, by C. Crozet., principal engineer, 1838.

• In the List of Archival Collections compiled by the AMS--MAA Joint Archives Committee one finds:

            Crozet, Claudius : 1789-1864
            Virginia Military Institute : NUCMC 83-1153

Documents: 

1820-07-10   Crozet to John C. Calhoun, Secretary of War. Reguests that Mr. Chalres U. Theriott be made a cadet. But his name is not in the Register, so apparently this effort was unsuccessful. [Calhoun Papers, V, 248]

1822-04-18   Crozet to Calhoun. David Bates Douglass wishes to exchange professorships and this is OK with Crozet "as I had no personal reason to prefer either Department." [Calhoun Papers, V, 49]

1823-02-15   Thayer to Alexander Macomb. Encloses a letter from Douglass of 1823-02-15 expressing Douglass's continued interest in exchanging professorships with Crozet. This time it is said that it is Crozet's idea. [Calhoun Papers, V, 481]

1823-02-27   Macomb to Calhoun saying that a mutual application for exchange of professorships between Douglass and Crozet. "As the exchange is thought beneficial to the Institution" he supports it as does Thayer. The wording of these synopses make me interested in seeing the whole letters. [Calhoun Papers, V, 497]

• William Couper (born 1884), Claudius Crozet, Soldier-Scholar-Educator-Engineer (1789-1864) by Colonel Wm. Couper, Charlottesville, Va., The Historical Publishing Co., Inc., 1936. USMA:  TA140.C8 C7. My copy is on loan to Mary Gury, a relative of Crozet.
• On p. 29 this says the French ms of Crozet's DG book is at WP, but I can't confirm this.
• F. G. Higbee: "A short history of descriptive geometry," Journal of Engineering Education, 1929, pp. 500-511. Have copy.
• Robert F. Hunter and Edwin L. Dooley, Jr, Claudius Crozet, French Engineer in America, 1790-1864.  University of Virginia Press, 1989. USMA:  TA140.C8 H86 1989.   A copy is for sale from War Stuff for $23.
• McGivern, James Gregory, First hundred years of engineering education in the United States (1807-1907), Spokane, Wash., Gonzaga University Press, c1960. Circulating books: T73 .M33.