Georg Iwanowitsch Kiesewetter

George Ivanovitch Kiesewetter ( Russian Георг Иванович Кизеветтер * 1808 in St. Petersburg , † May 22 ^jul. / 3. June 1857 ^greg. In Arkhangelsk ) was a Russian architect .

Life

Kiesewetter's father was a historian and music theorist . Kiesewetter studied 1819-1829 in the architecture department of the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts .

After graduating, Kiesewetter was appointed architect of the tax office in the Nizhny Novgorod governorate. His duties included the repair and construction of the state buildings in the cities of the governorate: post offices, barracks, prisons, hospitals and poor houses. In 1836 he became the first chief architect of the city of Nizhny Novgorod on the recommendation of the government architect Ivan Yefimovich Yefimov . In 1840 Kiesewetter was appointed architect of the Nizhny Novgorod Exhibition Center . In 1846 Kiesewetter was dismissed due to a conflict with the head of the building commission and returned to St. Petersburg.

For a long time Kiesewetter tried to get justice from the government authority through the courts. In 1856 he was appointed Archangelsk City Architect. Here, too, there was a conflict with the local authorities. He was sick and died after a year.

Works

Kiesewetter House, Nizhny Novgorod (1889–1904 where the psychiatrist Pyotr Petrovich Kaschtschenko lived )
Dobrolyubov Palace (1838–1839), Nizhny Novgorod
Upper town house Die Säulen with the tea club for the poor (1838–1840) established in 1902 by Dmitri Wassiljewitsch Sirotkin , Nizhny Novgorod

Web links

Literature by and about Georg Iwanowitsch Kiesewetter in the bibliographic database WorldCat

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d Татьяна Кучерова: "Первый" среди "главных": Георг Кизеветтер, первый городовой архитекторана (accessed November 14, 2019.
↑ ^a ^b Михаил Лощилов: Неправильная улица . In: Правда Севера (Архангельск) . November 27, 2013 ( [1] [accessed November 14, 2019]).
↑ О. В. Григорьев:. " Чувствовать себя человеком". Нижегородская Городская " Пушкинская " бесплатная народная библиотека . In: Нижегородская старина . No. 9 , 2004.

personal data
SURNAME	Kiesewetter, Georg Iwanowitsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Кизеветтер, Георг Иванович (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Russian architect
DATE OF BIRTH	1808
PLACE OF BIRTH	St. Petersburg
DATE OF DEATH	June 3, 1857
Place of death	Arkhangelsk

[perw-1] Татьяна Кучерова: "Первый" среди "главных": Георг Кизеветтер, первый городовой архитекторана (accessed November 14, 2019.

[losch-2] Михаил Лощилов: Неправильная улица . In: Правда Севера (Архангельск) . November 27, 2013 ( [1] [accessed November 14, 2019]).

[3] О. В. Григорьев:. " Чувствовать себя человеком". Нижегородская Городская " Пушкинская " бесплатная народная библиотека . In: Нижегородская старина . No. 9 , 2004.