Adolph Doebber

Adolph Doebber (born August 20, 1848 in Magdeburg ; † April 22, 1920 in Weimar ) was a German architect , construction clerk and architectural historian .

Life

After graduating from the Wilhelm-Gymnasium in Berlin in 1868, he attended the Berlin Building Academy . In 1876 he passed the master builder examination, then worked on the construction of the cadet institute in Lichterfelde and was then employed by the army administration in Spandau .

In 1892 he became director and building officer at the directorate of the 3rd Army Corps . In 1898 he retired so that he could devote himself entirely to his architectural history studies; In 1918 he settled in Weimar.

He dealt with the research of the Berlin architecture of classicism and especially its relations to Weimar and Goethe , so he published about the architect Heinrich Gentz , who built the theater in Lauchstädt and the castle in Weimar .

Publications

• Lauchstädt and Weimar. A study of the history of theater building . Mittler, Berlin 1908.
• The Berlin “Alte Münze” and its builder . In: Old Berlin. Communications from the Association for the History of Berlin 26, 1909, pp. 27–36 ( digitized version ).
• The castle in Weimar. His story from the fire in 1774 to the restoration in 1804 (= journal of the Association for Thuringian History and Antiquity, New Series, Supplement 3). G. Fischer, Jena 1911 ( digitized ).
• Art and architectural monuments in Ticino . In: Weekly of the Architects' Association in Berlin 2, 1907, No. 11-14.
• The drafts for the monument to Frederick the Great in Berlin . In: Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung 32, 1912, pp. 334–337. 341–342, Text Archive - Internet Archive .
• The interior of the old Weimar theater . In: Goethe-Jahrbuch 33, 1912, pp. 152–157 ( digitized version ).
• Study trips to Sicily and climbing Mount Etna in 1792 . Reprint from the manuscript. Sittenfeld, Berlin [around 1914].
• Heinrich Gentz, a Berlin builder around 1800 . Heymann, Berlin 1916.
• Joseph Furttenbach the Elder as a theater and school building master . In: Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung 37, 1917, pp. 57-60 ( digitized version ).
• Goethe and his estate in Ober-Roßla. According to the files in the Goethe and Schiller Archives a. in walking Main and State Archives in Weimar . In: Yearbook of the Goethe Society 6, 1919, pp. 195–239 ​​( digitized version ).
• Schinkel and Goethe. A memorial sheet for March 13th . In: Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung . 39, 1919, pp. 113–115 ( digitized version )
• Gilly, David . In: Ulrich Thieme , Fred. C. Willis (Ed.): General lexicon of visual artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 14 : Giddens-Gress . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1921, p. 48 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
• Gilly, Friedrich . In: Ulrich Thieme , Fred. C. Willis (Ed.): General lexicon of visual artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 14 : Giddens-Gress . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1921, p. 48–49 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
• Gontard, Karl Philipp Christian von . In: Ulrich Thieme , Fred. C. Willis (Ed.): General lexicon of visual artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 14 : Giddens-Gress . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1921, p. 372–373 ( Text Archive - Internet Archive ).
• Schinkel in Weimar . In: Yearbook of the Goethe Society 10.1924, pp. 103-130 ( digitized version ).

literature

• H .: Directorate and building officer a. D. Adolf Doebber †. In: Deutsche Bauzeitung. 54, 1920, No. 41, p. 234, kobv.de (PDF).
• Julius Kohte : Adolf Doebber †. In: Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung. 40, 1920, pp. 247-248 Textarchiv - Internet Archive .