Friedrich Wilhelm Langerhans

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Friedrich Wilhelm Langerhans around 1845

Friedrich Wilhelm Langerhans (born October 16, 1780 in Altlandsberg ; † April 16, 1851 in Berlin ) was a German architect and municipal building officer in Berlin.

Langerhans was urban planning inspector in Berlin and was on September 12, 1805 by King Friedrich Wilhelm III. Appointed Berlin's first full-time urban planning officer. In this office he worked until his retirement in 1849. He was responsible for the construction and design of schools, cemeteries and parks and the renovation and reconstruction of many churches.

During the Wars of Liberation against Napoléon in August 1813, through personal intervention with the Commander-in-Chief of the Swedish Northern Army, Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte , he prevented the construction of extensive bulwarks in front of the city limits.

Langerhans was married to Catharine Wilhelmine Treuer . His son Wilhelm Langerhans (1816–1902) was an imperial judge in Leipzig; his son Georg Langerhans later mayor of Cöpenick . Another son of Friedrich Wilhelm Langerhans, Paul Langerhans Senior (1820–1909), was a doctor and a city councilor in Berlin for 33 years; among his sons from two marriages were the famous pathologist Paul Langerhans (1847-1888) and the physicians Richard (1857-1947) and Robert Langerhans (1859-1904). A son-in-law was the architect Gustav Knoblauch (1833–1916).

In 1850 Langerhans was honored as the city ​​elder of Berlin . The uppermost section of the Rüdersdorfer waters is named Langerhans Canal in his honor .

Friedrich Wilhelm Langerhans died in Berlin in 1851 at the age of 70. His grave is in the Luisenstadt cemetery in Berlin-Kreuzberg .

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Tower of the Stralau village church built by Langerhans, today inclined by 5 °
The magistrate's restaurant, now called Zenner, was built here by Friedrich Wilhelm Langerhans in 1821/22. The restaurant was destroyed in 1945 at the end of the war. The new building erected at the same location (photo) was designed by the GDR architect Hermann Henselmann. (Image by Andreas Steinhoff)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The information follows Berlin in 1805. In: Luise Berlin. Edition Luisenstadt, 2002, archived from the original on March 4, 2016 ; accessed on March 17, 2019 . , while Kieling (2003) gives the date July 6, 1809.
  2. ^ Uwe Kieling: Berlin. Buildings and builders. Berlin 2003, p. 256.
  3. ↑ See: Hans Schadewaldt:  Langerhans, Paul. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 13, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1982, ISBN 3-428-00194-X , p. 593 ( digitized version ).
  4. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende: Lexicon of Berlin tombs . Haude & Spener, Berlin 2006. p. 81.
  5. ↑ Berlin Forum for Past and Present - History of the Spreepark by Dora Busch, Monica Geyler-von Bernus, Birgit Kahl - PDF p. 19
  6. ↑ Allgemeine Theaterzeitung and Originalblatt für Kunst, Literatur ..., Volume 26, p.72
personal data
SURNAME Langerhans, Friedrich Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect and municipal building officer in Berlin
DATE OF BIRTH October 16, 1780
PLACE OF BIRTH Altlandsberg
DATE OF DEATH April 16, 1851
Place of death Berlin