Johann Balthasar Lauterbach

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Johann Balthasar Lauterbach (born May 20, 1663 in Ulm , † April 20, 1694 in Wolfenbüttel ) was a German mathematician , architect and ducal-Brunswick master builder from 1688 to 1694. He designed the princely pleasure palace in Salzdahlum near Wolfenbüttel.

Life

His father Johann (1640–1719) was a shoemaker and guild master in Ulm and his first marriage was to Ursula Rößlin (1635–1665). A half-brother of Johann Balthasar was the cartographer and officer Johann Christoph Lauterbach (1675–1744). Lauterbach attended grammar school in Ulm and began studying theology at the University of Tübingen in 1681 , before studying mathematics at the University of Jena from 1683 to 1685 .

Worked in the Principality of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel

At the end of 1687, Duke Anton Ulrich signed him to the Knight's Academy in Wolfenbüttel , which was founded in the same year , where Lauterbach taught mathematics, physics and architecture as a professor. In 1689 he was appointed a master builder, which at the same time established a princely building authority with his subordinate builder Hermann Korb (verifiable from 1689) and several building clerks . In 1692/93 he was appointed fortress engineer, as which he led the expansion of the Wolfenbüttel fortifications.

Lauterbach died in Wolfenbüttel in 1694 at the age of 30. Leonhard Christoph Sturm succeeded him as a teacher at the Knight Academy . The official duties of the master builder were transferred to Hermann Korb, who was not officially appointed as master builder until February 6, 1704.

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Lauterbach's main work is the design of the baroque summer palace in Salzdahlum , which was built for Duke Anton Ulrich between 1688 and 1694. After neglect and deterioration, the half-timbered castle was demolished from 1813 to 1815. From 1688 to 1692 he expanded the Wolfenbütteler Residenzschloss . Lauterbach prepared the designs for the construction of the hunting lodge Langeleben am Elm in 1689, the opera house on Hagenmarkt in Braunschweig in 1690 and Destedt Castle from 1692 to 1693. The new Trinity Church in Wolfenbüttel, consecrated in 1700, is also based on Lauterbach's design. After it was destroyed by fire in 1705, another church was built by his successor Korb. Lauterbach never saw the realization of other designs by Korb, such as the manor house of Schloss Brüggen , Schloss Hundisburg and the Immanuelkirche in Hehlen .

Lauterbach took influences from Italian, French and Dutch architecture for his buildings in the classicist Baroque style. The use of ancient column arrangements, which he outlined in an unpublished draft treatise "Architecturae Civilis Practica" and a posthumously published "Compendium Architecturae Civilis Harmonicae Antiquae et Novae" (Amsterdam 1698), which was published in French in 1699 and in German in 1714, is of great importance Translation has been published.

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SURNAME Lauterbach, Johann Balthasar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German mathematician and architect
DATE OF BIRTH May 20, 1663
PLACE OF BIRTH Ulm
DATE OF DEATH April 20, 1694
Place of death Wolfenbüttel