Andreas Simons

Andreas Simons (born May 9, 1823 in Rheinbach ; † August 7, 1900 in Darmstadt ) was a German architect and publicist .

life and work

Simons grew up in the family of the high school teacher Peter Joseph Mockel. As a high school student he was a co-founder of the Maikäferbund , a literary group that existed from summer 1840 to March 1847, and studied law and philology in Bonn from 1842 to 1846, and art history from 1843 to 1845, then turned to the study of architecture. He studied at the building school of the Polytechnic in Karlsruhe and at the building academy in Berlin . As early as 1846 he made a name for himself with the construction of the double chapel in Schwarzrheindorf . He then worked as an architect in Düsseldorf, Karlsruhe and Berlin, where he worked for August Stüler . From 1850 he was a freelance architect and after August Soller died in 1853 he built the Michaelkirche in Berlin . From 1854 to 1858 the Braunschweiger Bank und Kreditanstalt was built according to his designs . From 1869 to 1895 he taught architecture at the Polytechnic in Darmstadt (from 1877 Technical University of Darmstadt ) . He spent his retirement in Bonn.

literature

• Joseph Joesten: Literary Life on the Rhine in the Middle of the Nineteenth Century . In: The border messengers . tape 2 , no. 58 , 1899, pp. 95 ( digitized version ).
• Uwe Kieling: Berlin private architect and master railroad builder in the 19th century . Kulturbund der DDR, Berlin 1988, p. 65 .
• Andrea Stieldorf, Ursula Mättig, Ines Neffgen (eds.): But suddenly now emancipated, science wants to drive it: women at the University of Bonn (1818-2018) . V & R unipress GmbH, Göttingen 2018, ISBN 978-3-8470-0894-1 , p. 63 ( limited preview in Google Book search).

Web links

• Simons, M. Andreas Hubert. Hessian biography. (As of May 9, 2019). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).