Georg von Strackwitz
Georg von Strackwitz ( Polish Jerzy Strakowski ; born January 30, 1614 in Danzig ; † May 17, 1675 ibid) was a Danzig city engineer, builder and architect of fortifications .
Life
Von Strackwitz was the son of the Danzig city engineer Hans Strackwitz (also Strakowski) and his wife Anna, daughter of Georg Krüger. Like his father before, Strackwitz was trained in his subject through grants from the Danzig Council. He received money from 1630 and went to Amsterdam for several years to learn the building there. In 1635 he submitted his plans to fortify Danzig to the city council.
On December 12, 1641 von Strackwitz married Barbara, the daughter of Pietro de Neri and Barbara Heidemann. They had at least one daughter. On April 19, 1678, Aurelia Strackwitz, the "daughter of the former captain and war builder of Danzig" married the poet Johann Peter Titz , who was almost sixty at the time and had already been married twice. In addition to his work as a war engineer, he was also actively employed as a captain of the infantry.
After his death in 1675, a memorial plaque was erected in his honor in the Gdańsk Church of St. Mary .
literature
- Karl Hoburg: History of the fortifications of Danzig. therein: Supplement C. The engineers from the Strakowski family. Pp. 174-184 ( digitized in the Google book search - as George von Strackwitz).
- Strakofski (Strackowitz, Strackwitz), Georg . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 32 : Stephens – Theodotos . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1938, p. 152 .
Web links
- German photo library: Georg von Strackwitz: Plan of the Sweden fortress on the Danziger Haupt on the Vistula, 1: 6,000, copper engraving, 1661
Individual evidence
- ↑ Johann Peter Titz: Introduction: 4. Marital happiness and domestic worries . In: Leopold Hermann Fischer (Ed.): Johann Peter Titz 'German poems . Verlag der Buchhandlung des Waisenhauses, Halle a. P. 1888, p. XXXV ( Text Archive - Internet Archive ).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Strackwitz, Georg von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Strakowski, Jerzy; Strakofski, Georg; Strackowitz, Georg; Strackwitz, Georg; Strackwitz, George von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Gdansk city engineer, builder, architect of fortifications |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 30, 1614 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Danzig |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 17, 1675 |
| Place of death | Danzig |