Adolf Zeller

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Adolf Zeller (born February 2, 1871 in Darmstadt or Büdingen , † October 26, 1946 in Radebeul ) was a German architect , university professor and architecture author .

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Zeller studied at the Technical University of Darmstadt and at the Technical University (Berlin-) Charlottenburg . He completed the legal traineeship that followed his studies with the second state examination and has held the title of government master builder ever since . In 1912 he became a Dr.-Ing. At the Technical University of Braunschweig . PhD ; His book Die Geschichte der Wohnbaukunst der Stadt Hildesheim , which appeared in 1913 as a supplement to the publication series Die Kunstdenkmäler der Provinz Hannover , was accepted as a dissertation .

Before the First World War he taught as a private lecturer at the Technical University of Darmstadt. He was then a private lecturer and later an associate professor for building history at the Technical University of Berlin, where he was chairman of the Association for the History of Berlin from 1919 to 1920 .

Zeller designed the architecture of the Goethe Memorial in Darmstadt and the monument to Grand Duchess Alice of Hesse, and from 1909 he also restored the Blasius Church in Nordhausen and the Collegiate Church of St. Peter in Wimpfen. He wrote numerous papers on architectural topics.

Fonts

  • Darmstadt town hall. 1899.
  • Hornberg Castle on the Neckar. Karl W. Hiersemann, Leipzig 1903.
  • On the history of the Hofheim State Hospital. In: Historical Association for the Grand Duchy of Hesse (Ed.): Philipp the Magnanimous. Contributions to the history of his life and time. Elwert, Marburg 1904, pp. 405-418.
  • The Heidelberg Castle. Becoming, decay and future. In twelve lectures. Braun, Karlsruhe 1905.
  • The Romanesque monuments of Hildesheim. 1907. Review in: Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung , Volume 28, 1908, No. 45 (from June 6, 1908), pp. 312-313.
  • The history of residential architecture in the city of Hildesheim. Schulze, Hanover 1913. (Dissertation, Technical University of Braunschweig, 1912.)
  • The question of small apartments and their solution. Linenweber, 1919.
  • Hohnstein Castle in the Harz Mountains . In: Zeitschrift für Bauwesen , Vol. 70, 1920, Sp. 409–414 ( digitized version of the Central and State Library Berlin ).
  • The church of the Benedictine convent of St. Mary on the Munzenberg near Quedlinburg. In: Zeitschrift des Harzverein , Volume XLV (around 1920), pp. 66–80. (also proven as a special print)
  • The tower of Lübben. In: Brandenburgia, monthly journal of the Society for Local History and Home Security in the Mark Brandenburg , 34th year 1925 (also proven as a special print)
  • Early Romanesque churches and monasteries of the Benedictines and Augustinian canons north of the Harz Mountains. Berlin 1928.
  • Balthasar Neumann and his way of working. 1929.
  • The evaluation of the findings of early building facilities in the Saale Ingelheim Reichsaal and Kaiserwohnung , issue 1. Walter de Gruyter & Co., Berlin 1935.
  • Old Frankfurt and Tribur. Research on Carolingian buildings in the Rheingau and Rheinhessen , volume 4. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 1939.
  • On the oldest building history of the Mainz Cathedral. In: Research and Progress, Newsletter of German Science and Technology , year 1940, No. 12.

Honors

  • 1903: Hessian silver medal for art and science

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. born on February 2, 1871 in Darmstadt according to Thieme-Becker (see literature)
  2. born on February 2, 1871 in Büdingen according to Dressler's art manual (see literature)
  3. died on October 26, 1946 in Radebeul according to: Zeller, Adolf. Hessian biography. (As of February 15, 2013). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  4. The DNB gives the different date of death 1945.