Johann Eduard Jacobsthal

Johann Eduard Jacobsthal

Johann Eduard Jacobsthal (born September 17, 1839 in Prussian Stargard , † January 1, 1902 in Charlottenburg ) was a German architect and university professor .

Life

After graduating from secondary school in Danzig, the son of a businessman received his first training as a construction worker with EH Hoffmann in Neustadt / West Prussia in 1856/57 . From 1857 to 1859 he studied at the Berlin Building Academy with a final building manager examination. Afterwards he worked practically in West Prussia, among other things as a construction manager at the church in Wielkolonka based on a design by August Stüler. While still a student he traveled through southern and western Germany, England, Belgium, France, Italy, Greece and Asia Minor. In 1866 he passed the master builder examination ( state examination ) and worked for the municipal building administration in Berlin until 1867, and from the beginning of 1867 for the ministerial building commission. In 1872 he was appointed a master builder and a little later worked in the technical office of the Ministry of Commerce. In 1876 he gave up civil service.

From 1875 to 1882 Jacobsthal was the leading architect in the construction of the Berlin Stadtbahn .

Jacobsthal also worked as a teacher. Part-time he was an assistant teacher from May 1866 and from November 1873 a teacher at the building academy. Then he taught from 1868 to 1872 at the school of the Kunstgewerbemuseum , from 1870 to 1876 at the art school , became a professor in 1874 and in 1876 also professor at the Gewerbeakademie Berlin. From 1881 to 1882 he was head of the architecture department and member of the senate of the Technical University (Berlin-) Charlottenburg. In 1889/1890 he officiated there as rector and in 1890/91 as prorector.

Jacobsthal was also involved in associations and institutions. In 1860 he became a member of the Architects' Association in Berlin , of which he was also a member of the board from 1893 to 1895. In 1866/67 he co-founded the Deutsche Bauzeitung (together with Wilhelm Böckmann and Karl Emil Otto Fritsch ). From 1876 to 1879 he was a member of the Technical Examination Institute and on September 20, 1880 he became a member of the Academy of Civil Engineering . In April 1893 he became a member of the Association of Berlin Architects . He was also a member of the Prussian Academy of the Arts .

In addition to his work as an architect and teacher, he made numerous publications on ornamentation and craft designs, such as B. 1868/69 a magnificent cabinet for Kolscher's estate in the trade museum, in 1889 the design of the stage curtain in the theater as well as book covers, title pages, drafts of tombs and memorials.

Jacobsthal was married to Catharine Louise, born in 1867. Hottenrott, with whom he had a son and a daughter. In 1874 he went on a trip to Italy with Friedrich Adler and the art historian and later Thuringian monument conservator Paul Lehfeldt . In 1899/1900 he traveled to Egypt.

buildings

In Berlin

• 1867: Construction management for the renovation of the House of Representatives on Dönhoffplatz according to a design by Hermann Blankenstein .
• Around 1874: Asylum for the blind in Steglitz, Rothenburgstraße 14/15 (together with Ludwig Giersberg )
• 1871/72: Construction management at the Victory Column based on a design by Johann Heinrich Strack
• 1873–1875: widening of the Friedrichsbrücke
• 1874/75: Humboldt-Gymnasium at Gartenstrasse 29
• 1875–1882: Design of the Berlin urban railway stations at Alexanderplatz and Bellevue

Tower of the church in Mittenwalde

Outside of Berlin

• Before 1870: banks in Hanover, Kassel, Cologne (together with Ludwig Giersberg ), government and justice buildings in Kassel and court buildings in Posen (together with Heinrich Herrmann )
• 1870–1873: Villa Hügel in Essen (together with Paul Spieker )
• 1875–1877: Reichsbank and Justice Building in Breslau
• 1875–1878: Metz railway station
• 1877/78: neo-Gothic tower of the parish church of St. Moritz in Mittenwalde
• 1877–1884: Strasbourg train station
• 1879–1881: Regional court in Dortmund (together with Friedrich Peltz )
• 1886–1890: Reconstruction of the train station in Halle
• Around 1890: Gates of the Nogat Bridge at Marienburg
• Around 1891: Portals of the Vistula Bridge in Dirschau ,
• 1894: Hall and waiting room building of the central train station in Cologne

Honors

• 1883: Silver medal for services to the building industry
• 1884: Red Eagle Order IV. (Later III.) Class
• 1894: Privy Councilor

literature

• F. Laske: Privy Councilor Professor Joh. E. Jacobsthal in Berlin †. In: Centralblatt der Bauverwaltung , Volume 22, No. 3 (January 11, 1902), pp. 18-19.
• Hans Schliepmann : Johann Eduard Joacobsthal / Ein Gedenkblatt. In: Berliner Architekturwelt , 5th year, issue 2 (May 1902), pp. 39–42.
• Uwe Kieling: Berlin building officials and state architects in the 19th century . Kulturbund der DDR, Berlin 1986, p. 50 f .
• Uwe Kieling: Berlin - Builders and Buildings: From Gothic to Historicism . 1st edition. Tourist Verl., Berlin; Leipzig 1987, ISBN 3-350-00280-3 , p. 247 f .

Web links

• Jacobsthal in the Berlin Lexicon of Edition Luisenstadt
• Jacobsthal in the Jewish Encyclopedia

Individual evidence

1. ↑ cabinet for storing Kolschers estate in the Arts Museum, Berlin. In: Architekturmuseum TU Berlin. Retrieved December 9, 2019 . 
2. ↑ Stage curtain for the Schauspielhaus Berlin. In: Architekturmuseum TU Berlin. Retrieved December 9, 2019 . 
3. ↑ Humboldt Gymnasium & teacher's residence. In: Monument Database Berlin. 1875, Retrieved December 9, 2019 . 
4. ^ Branch of the Prussian Bank, Breslau. In: Architekturmuseum TU Berlin. Retrieved December 9, 2019 . 
5. ↑ New Vistula Bridge, Dirschau. In: Architekturmuseum TU Berlin. Retrieved December 9, 2019 . 
6. ^ Honor , Im Centralblatt der Bauverwaltung , No. 39, September 29, 1883, p. 358, accessed on December 21, 2012