Heinrich Wagner (architect, 1834)

Wagner's relief in the old main building of the TU Darmstadt

Frontispiece and title page of a volume in the series Handbuch der Architektur

Heinrich Wagner (born October 5, 1834 in Stuttgart , † March 19, 1897 in Darmstadt , full name: Heinrich Ludwig Ehrenfried Wagner ) was a German architect , architectural historian and university professor .

Life

Wagner studied a. a. as a student of Joseph von Egle , Christian Friedrich von Leins and Gustav Adolf Breymann Architektur at the Stuttgart Polytechnic (later the Technical University of Stuttgart ) and became a member of the Stauffia Corps in 1850 . From 1855 he continued his training with Charles-Auguste Questel in Paris and stayed in Great Britain until 1861. Afterwards he was a teacher for architecture at the Polytechnic Stuttgart.

From 1869 until his death in 1897, Wagner was professor of building history at the Grand Ducal Polytechnic in Darmstadt (today: Technical University of Darmstadt ).

Wagner was dean of the building school from 1869 to 1879 and from 1883 to 1889. From 1895 to 1897 he was dean of the architecture department. He held the post of rector for two years from 1879 to 1881.

Together with his professor colleague Erwin Marx (1841–1901) and the Darmstadt senior building officer Müller, he worked out the guidelines for the new building of the Grand Ducal Museum Darmstadt (today: Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt ) in 1886 . In recognition of his services, the Grand Duke appointed him a secret building councilor.

After the decision to build a new building for the TH Darmstadt am Herrngarten was made in 1890, a special building authority was set up by the Grand Ducal Ministry. Heinrich Wagner was appointed to the board of this building authority. He was commissioned to design the main building (today: the old main building).

Heinrich Wagner was, together with Josef Durm , Hermann Ende and Eduard Schmitt, founding editor of the Handbuch der Architektur .

Honors

1875: Knight's Cross 1st class of the order of Philip the Magnanimous
1886: Secret building councilor
1894: Honorary doctorate from the University of Giessen
1895: Knight's Cross 1st Class of the Order of Ludwig

buildings

1864–1868: Anglican Church of St. Katharina in Stuttgart
1869–1870: new side wings to Georg Moller's old mausoleum of the grand ducal family in Darmstadt
1873–1876: House of the Museum Society in Stuttgart (with Carl Walter )
1892–1895: Main building of the Grand Ducal Technical University of Darmstadt , Hochschulstrasse

literature

Ludwig Fränkel: Wagner, Heinrich . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 44, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1898, pp. 437-439.
Wagner, Heinrich. In: Stadtlexikon Darmstadt. Stuttgart 2006, p. 954.

Individual evidence

^ Architects' Association at the Kgl. Polytechnic in Stuttgart (ed.): Architectural studies. Stuttgart undated (approx. 1881/1891), booklet 58, sheet 8 and booklet 66, sheet 5-6.

personal data
SURNAME	Wagner, Heinrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Wagner, Heinrich Ludwig Ehrenfried (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German architect and architectural historian
DATE OF BIRTH	October 5, 1834
PLACE OF BIRTH	Stuttgart
DATE OF DEATH	March 19, 1897
Place of death	Darmstadt

[1] Architects' Association at the Kgl. Polytechnic in Stuttgart (ed.): Architectural studies. Stuttgart undated (approx. 1881/1891), booklet 58, sheet 8 and booklet 66, sheet 5-6.