Carl Samuel Hero
Carl Samuel Held (born May 14, 1766 in Breslau , † October 4, 1845 in Gdansk ) was a German architect and Prussian construction clerk .
Carl Samuel Held began in 1778 as a trainee with Carl Gotthard Langhans in Breslau and worked among other things at his theater in Breslau as early as 1782 . In 1886 he accompanied Langhans to the newly founded Oberhofbauamt in Berlin, where he was mainly involved in the execution of Langhans designs, together with Georg Friedrich Boumann in 1787/88 in the renovation of the opera house and in 1789/90 in the construction of the tower of the Marienkirche . 1787–1789 he carried out the construction of the anatomical theater of the veterinary school . On April 1, 1794 he got a job as a city architect and councilor of Danzig, which he took up on June 1. From 1799–1801 the Theater am Kohlenmarkt was built according to his planserected (destroyed in World War II, ruin demolished in 1957). In 1807 he directed the construction of the defenses when Napoleon approached, and from 1814 he was responsible for rebuilding the largely destroyed city. In the spring of 1834 he retired.
literature
- Uwe Kieling: Berlin - Builders and Buildings: From Gothic to Historicism . 1st edition. Tourist Verl., Berlin; Leipzig 1987, ISBN 3-350-00280-3 , p. 182 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Carl Samuel Held in the bibliographic database WorldCat
Individual evidence
- ^ City Theater, Gdansk. In: Architekturmuseum TU Berlin. Retrieved February 27, 2020 .
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Hero, Carl Samuel |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Held, Carl S .; Hero, CS |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German architect and Prussian building officer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 14, 1766 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wroclaw |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 4, 1845 |
| Place of death | Berlin |