Alfred Gotthold Meyer

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Alfred Gotthold Meyer (born March 1, 1864 in Berlin ; † December 17, 1904 in Charlottenburg ) was Professor of the History of Applied Arts at the Royal Technical University of Charlottenburg .

His monograph Eisenbauten was only published posthumously in 1907 . Its history and aesthetics , completed by Wilhelm Freiherr von Tettau (1872–1929), in which he examined the effects of using iron as a building material on style formation.

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  • Karl-Eugen Kurrer : structural analysis and aesthetics. Comments on the new edition of the work "Iron Buildings. Their History and Aesthetics" by Alfred Gotthold Meyer . In: Stahlbau , 67th vol. (1998), H. 3, pp. 205-210.

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