Alexander Wittek

Alexander Wittek (born October 12, 1852 in Sisak , † May 11, 1894 in Graz ) was an Austro-Hungarian architect and chess player .

Life

The Sarajevo City Hall, designed by Alexander Wittek

Wittek worked full-time as an architect in Bosnia and Herzegovina during the Austro-Hungarian monarchy. Among other things, he designed the Sarajevo City Hall .

Wittek was also a chess master: in 1881 in Berlin he achieved the shared 5th – 6th. Place in the 2nd DSB Congress, won by Joseph Henry Blackburne . Wittek also achieved 9th place in the tournament in Vienna in 1882 (the still “unofficial world champion” - the world champion was only awarded from 1886 - Wilhelm Steinitz and Simon Winawer won.) Wittek died in a psychiatric hospital in Graz in 1894 after one diagnosed with "paralytic mental illness". The circumstances surrounding death are controversial: One source says Wittek committed suicide. In contrast, the Graz clinic explains that Wittek died there of tuberculosis.

Web links

Player profile on chessmetrics.com

Individual evidence

^ Sarajevo - Bosnia and Herzegovina - Attractions . sarajevo-guide.com. Retrieved April 15, 2012: “ Allagedelly because of his work on the City hall construction (1892-1893), Wittek got mentally sick and committed a suicide so the work on the City hall was completed in 1894 by Ćiril M. Iveković with minor modifications of Wittek's work. "
↑ KlinOptikum, edition 6/2007 (PDF) In: Landeskrankenhaus - Universitätsklinikum Graz . Archived from the original on April 2, 2015. Retrieved July 30, 2016.

personal data
SURNAME	Wittek, Alexander
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austro-Hungarian architect and chess player
DATE OF BIRTH	October 12, 1852
PLACE OF BIRTH	Sisak
DATE OF DEATH	May 11, 1894
Place of death	Graz

[1] Sarajevo - Bosnia and Herzegovina - Attractions . sarajevo-guide.com. Retrieved April 15, 2012: “ Allagedelly because of his work on the City hall construction (1892-1893), Wittek got mentally sick and committed a suicide so the work on the City hall was completed in 1894 by Ćiril M. Iveković with minor modifications of Wittek's work. "

[2] KlinOptikum, edition 6/2007 (PDF) In: Landeskrankenhaus - Universitätsklinikum Graz . Archived from the original on April 2, 2015. Retrieved July 30, 2016.