Erasmus Ritter (architect)
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Erasmus Ritter (born June 4, 1726 in Bern , † June 30, 1805 ibid) was a Swiss architect , engineer and archaeologist.
Life
Erasmus Ritter was born as the son of the city doctor Johann Jakob Ritter and Johanna Catharina Lerber. He attended elementary schools in Bern. In 1765 he married Johanna Margaretha Knecht.
Ritter trained as an architect and engineer between 1739 and 1747, a. a. with Albrecht Stürler in Bern and Jean-Michel Billon in Geneva. From 1747 to 1749 he carried out practical engineering and architectural studies in Kassel and Göttingen, and from 1749 to 1754 at the Paris Ecole des Arts with Jacques-François Blondel . He deepened his engineering skills in the Bureau des dessinateurs du Roi with Jean-Rodolphe Perronet .
In the years 1754 to 1756 on his trip to Italy in the vicinity of Giovanni Battista Piranesi he acquired knowledge of progressive fantasy projects and architecture peinture with Egyptian and Doric designs. From 1756 to 1772 he was a full-time architect and engineer in Bern and from 1772 department store administrator (customs director of the Bern estate).
Services
Ritter's learned knowledge had a major influence on the Bernese architects. His most valuable achievement, in addition to his buildings from 1783 to 1786, was the management of the excavation and monitoring work in the Roman Aventicum ( Avenches ).
Memberships
Erasmus Ritter was a member of:
- Economic Society , Bern (1761)
- Grande Société , Bern
- Society of Carpenters , Bern (1764)
- Académie royale d'architecture de Paris
- Bologna Institute
- Dresden Academy
- Society of Antiquities in Kassel
Works
- Draft (not executed) St. Ursus Cathedral in Solothurn (1760–1763)
- Wattenwylhaus, Herrengasse 23 in Bern (1760–1764)
- Amtshausgasse 5, (Burgerhaus) in Bern (1764–1766)
- La Petite Rochette in Neuchâtel (1764–1770)
- Hôtel DuPeyrou (1764–1772) in Neuchâtel
- Steiger Estate in Tschugg (1765–1775)
- Luternau country estate (Belvedere) in Stuckishaus (1770–1774)
literature
- Erasme Ritter: Mémoire abrégé et recueil de quelques antiquités de la Suisse avec des dessins levés sur les lieux depuis 1783. Bern 1788 ( digitized in the Google book search).
- Thomas Markus Loertscher: Erasmus Ritter (1726–1805), diploma thesis 1993.
- Thomas Markus Loertscher, Georg Germann: Real, useful and beautiful. Exhibition catalog. Bern 1994.
Web links
- Loertscher, Thomas: Erasmus Ritter. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
- Philippe Bridel, Michel Fuchs: Aventicum. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
- Erasmus Ritter's estate in the catalog of the Burgerbibliothek Bern
- Erasmus Ritter on zimmerleuten-bern.ch
Individual evidence
- ^ Barbara Roth: Jean-Michel Billon. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
- ↑ KGS 742
- ↑ KGS 616
- ↑ KGS 4089
- ^ Eduard M. Fallet: Bremgarten. ISBN 3-258-04387-6 . Pages 244/245.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ritter, Erasmus |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Knight, Erasme |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss architect, engineer and archaeologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 4, 1726 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bern |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 30, 1805 |
| Place of death | Bern |