Eugen von Czihak

Eugen von Czihak

Eugen von Czihak (born July 8, 1853 in Aschaffenburg , † August 21, 1918 in Berlin ) was a German architect , Prussian construction clerk and art historian .

Life

Eugene of Czihak studied 1871-1874 Architecture at the Technical University of Darmstadt . He then worked as a draftsman and architect in the Friedrichsort garrison construction office from 1874 to 1875 , before becoming a teacher at the municipal building trade school in Salza and at the trade school in Liegnitz in December 1895 . In 1878 he began a legal clerkship as a government building supervisor . In 1886 he was appointed government builder ( Assessor ) after passing the second state examination . In 1890 he became a teacher at the state building trade school in Breslau . In September 1892 he became director of the newly founded state building trade school in Königsberg and, on a part-time basis, of the provincial art and trade school in Königsberg . In 1902 he was promoted to the government and trade school council in Düsseldorf . In 1905 he was appointed to the state trade office of the Prussian Ministry of Commerce in Berlin, where he died in 1918 with the rank of secret councilor .

Czihak devoted himself to the research of the arts and crafts , especially Silesia and Prussia. From 1888 to 1892 he was the administrator of the collections of the Museum of Silesian Antiquities in Breslau.

Fonts

• Silesian glasses. Publishing house of the Museum of Silesian Antiquities, Breslau 1891.
• Guide to the collections of the Museum of Silesian Antiquities in Wroclaw. 3rd edition, Nischkowsky, Breslau 1891.
• The monuments of the family of Saurma and Sauerma. Wroclaw 1892.
• (as editor together with Walter Simon): Königsberger stucco ceiling. Hiersemann, Leipzig 1899.
• The fine forging art of earlier times in Prussia.
  • Volume 1: General. Königsberg and East Prussia. Schwann, Düsseldorf 1903.
  • Volume 2: West Prussia. Hiersemann, Leipzig 1908.
    (Von Czihak's death prevented the planned third volume with supplements)

literature

• Christian Krollmann: from Czihak, Eugen. In: Christian Krollmann (Ed.): Old Prussian Biography. Volume 1, Gräfe and Unzer, Königsberg 1941, p. 120.
• Old Prussian monthly. Volume 36, pp. 328–329 (review of Königsberger stucco ceiling by Adolf Boetticher, online ( Memento from September 7, 2011 in the Internet Archive )); Volume 40, pp. 318–319 (review of the fine forging art of earlier times in Prussia by Dethlefsen); Volume 46, pp. 532–533 (review of the second volume of the fine forging art of earlier times in Prussia by C. Krollmann)
• Messages from the West Prussian History Association. Volume 7, Danzig 1908, p. 67 (review of the second volume of the fine forging art of earlier times in Prussia by Simson); Volume 18, No. 2, April 1, 1919, pp. 23-24 (Bernhard Schmidt: E. von Czihak † )
• Karl Masner , Hans Seger (ed.): Yearbook of the Silesian Museum for Applied Arts and Antiquities. (= Silesian prehistory in pictures and writing , new series.) Breslau 1900 and 1934, Volume 1, pp. 22–23 (in the article History of the former Museum of Silesian Antiquities by Hans Seger); Volume 10, pp. 6-7 (in the article Seventy-five Years of Silesian Antiquities Association by Hans Seger, with picture)
• Ernst Wermke: Bibliography of the history of East and West Prussia up to 1929. Graefe and Unzer, Königsberg 1933. (also lists his articles)