Christian Schädlich
Christian Schädlich (born June 15, 1922 in Reumtengrün , Vogtland ) is a German architectural scientist .
Life
Christian Schädlich is the son of a pantograph sticker. He attended the village elementary school, then the commercial school and the municipal high school in Auerbach / Vogtland. In 1941 he passed the Abitur examination. Then he was called up for labor service and in the same year for the armed forces. In the summer of 1945 he took up an apprenticeship as a bricklayer in Plauen. The journeyman's examination was followed from October 1947 to May 1952 by studying architecture at the University of Architecture and Construction in Weimar. He received his doctorate in 1957. He was appointed lecturer in 1965. After successfully completing his habilitation, he held the professorship for theory and history of architecture from 1967 until his retirement in 1987.
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Christian Schädlich researched and published on architectural theory, architectural trends and the development of building structures in the 19th and 20th centuries. Century ( historicism , classical modernism, Bauhaus , Russian-Soviet avant-garde , steel and reinforced concrete construction) as well as to the Weimar artistic schools. Immediately after completing his studies, he was in charge of the project and was able to put his diploma thesis into practice (design and planning of the new building for the district administration in Bad Salzungen). Then - following his historical inclination - he turned to scientific and educational work as an assistant in the field of building history at the Weimar University of Architecture and Construction . His first scientific focus was on working on the history of architectural theory .
His dissertation, defended in 1957, deals with the fundamentals of classical architectural theory, based on the writings of the German architectural theorist LC Sturm (1669–1719). The preoccupation with the architectural history of the 19th century determined another important direction of work, which made significant contributions to the history of iron construction and the subject of historicism , to Gottfried Semper , Karl Friedrich Schinkel and others. At the end of the 1960s he was one of the first in the GDR to study the history and legacy of the Bauhaus.
Christian Schädlich's habilitation thesis, “Iron in 19th Century Architecture”, written in 1967, quickly became a classic among experts. For a long time in circulation only in hand prints, this basic work on the relationship between architecture and construction has been available in printed form for the first time since 2015.
Awards
- 1983 Humboldt Medal
Web links
- Literature by and about Christian Schädlich in the catalog of the German National Library
- Christian Schädlich - 90th student work 1947-1952. Exhibition at the Bauhaus University Weimar. May 24, 2012, accessed August 17, 2020 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Horst Siegel: Lecture on the 4th Bauhaus Colloquium Weimar from June 24th to 26th, 1986 In: Wiss. Z. Hochsch. Archit. Construct. - A. - Weimar. 33 (1987) 4/5/6, pp. 184-187. Website of the university library of the Bauhaus University Weimar. Retrieved June 2, 2012.
- ↑ In spring 2019 he gave a video interview to the Weimar library director Frank Sion-Ritz , in which he a. a. talked about his experiences as a student.
- ^ Christian Schadenlich: The iron in 19th century architecture. (= Firmitas. Volume 1). Geymüller Verlag for Architecture, Aachen / Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-943164-05-3 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Harmful, Christian |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German architectural scientist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 15, 1922 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Reumtengrün , Vogtland |