Hanns Christoph Wagener

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Hanns Christoph Wagener (* around 1700 ; † May 1760 in Dresden ) was a German engineer and architect.

He was an engineer captain and teacher of architecture at the Königl. Pohln. and Churfürstl. Saxon. Knight and Military Academy of the Adelichen Cadets ( Knight Academy) in Dresden.

In 1755 he published the work "Thorough Instructions on Civil-Bau-Kunst"

Fonts

  • Thorough instruction on Civil-Bau-Kunst , M. Keyl Dresden 1755
  • Hanns Christoph Wageners Thorough instruction on the Civil-Bau-Kunst. 1, which contains not only the five column orders, together with two composites derived from Toscana, Dorica and Jonica ... , Breitkopf Dreßden, Leipzig 1768 (Volume 1)
  • Hanns Christoph Wageners Thorough instruction on the Civil-Bau-Kunst. 2, in which all the column arrangements of the first part, with entablature without tooth cuts, boards and rafter heads ... contain ... , Breitkopf Dreßden, Leipzig 1768 (Volume 2)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Johann Rudolf Füssli, Johann Heinrich Füssli: General Artist Lexicon, Orell Füßli 1816, page 4969
  2. ↑ Georg Christoph Hamberger, Johann Georg Meusel: The learned Teutschland, or Lexicon of the now living German writers, Volume 21 , Meyersche Buchhandlung 1827, page 295
  3. ↑ Hanns Christoph Wageners ... Thorough instruction on the Civil-Bau-Kunst
personal data
SURNAME Wagener, Hanns Christoph
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wagener, Hans Christoph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect and civil engineer
DATE OF BIRTH 1700
DATE OF DEATH May 1760
Place of death Dresden