Friedrich Albert Immanuel Mellin

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Friedrich Mellin (born June 27, 1796 in Magdeburg , † April 2, 1859 in Berlin ; full name: Friedrich Albert Immanuel Mellin ) was a German architect , Prussian construction officer and honorary citizen of Magdeburg.

Life

Mellin was born as the son of the Protestant pastor and philosopher Georg Samuel Albert Mellin . His godfather was the philosopher Immanuel Kant . First he attended the cathedral high school Magdeburg and the provincial, art and trade school of the city. The focus of his training here was mathematics and drawing .

From 1812 Mellin attended the University of Halle and acquired his first knowledge of construction. Mellin then went first to the military , which he left as an officer in 1816 .

He then worked as a construction manager for his brother, who worked as a master builder in Halberstadt . In the same year he passed the surveyor test . Further years of training in Berlin followed, as well as study trips through Germany, but also through Northern Italy and Switzerland .

In 1822 he was promoted to agricultural inspector in Magdeburg. In 1826 he was commissioned by the Upper President of the Province of Saxony , Wilhelm Anton von Klewiz , to manage the restoration of Magdeburg Cathedral , working with Carl Albert Rosenthal and Andreas Clemens . His tasks also included the various repair work on church buildings and public buildings in the Magdeburg building district.

In 1831 he was made an honorary citizen of the city of Magdeburg for his achievements, particularly in connection with the renovation of the cathedral. Mellin then moved to Köslin in the rank of government and building councilor , but returned to Magdeburg in 1833. Here he, like Wilhelm Ribbeck (1793–1843), was one of the founding members of the Magdeburg Art Association .

After a stay in Great Britain , Mellin turned to railroad construction and became a member of the board of the Magdeburg-Köthen-Halle-Leipzig Railway Company . In 1842 he examined the project for the Cologne-Minden Railway on behalf of the Prussian Ministry of Finance . Mellin developed traffic regulations and was involved in various railway construction projects from the state side. In 1843 he was appointed to the Prussian Ministry of Finance in Berlin with the rank of secret government councilor. In July 1847 he joined the Monday Club in Berlin. In 1850 he took over the role of ministerial director and headed the department for construction and railways. In 1851 he directed the construction of the Magdeburg-Halberstädter Railway . In 1853 he was appointed general building director .

Together with Heinrich Wilhelm Dove and Franz August O'Etzel , he also made his first scientific experiments on telegraphy in rail traffic.

Mellin was buried in the Luisenstadt cemetery in Berlin. A grave monument was erected for him from the circles of the Prussian building officials . The relief of the gravestone was the work of Gustav Blaeser (not preserved). The city of Magdeburg named a street in his honor as Mellinstraße .

Fonts

  • (as editor): Magdeburg Cathedral. 1852.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Monday Club in Berlin 1749-1899: u fixed. Commemorative publication for his 150th annual celebration / (Ed .: G (ustav) A (dolf) Sachse and Eduard Droop). Berlin: J. Sittenfeld, 1899, No. 171 pp. 138-139.
personal data
SURNAME Mellin, Friedrich Albert Immanuel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mellin, Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect and Prussian building officer
DATE OF BIRTH June 27, 1796
PLACE OF BIRTH Magdeburg
DATE OF DEATH April 2, 1859
Place of death Berlin