Johann Friedrich August Severin

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Johann Friedrich August Severin , also Wilhelm (* 1780/1782; † September 14, 1861 in Berlin ) was a German architect , Prussian construction clerk and university professor .

Life

family

Johann Friedrich August's father came from Denmark and was most recently a teacher and language master at the Züllichau pedagogy. His mother came from Liegnitz . The Prussian pedagogue and writer , Karl Ludwig Severin (1785-1851) and the Vice- Superintendent in Freienwalde i.Pom. , finally pastor in Wolkwitz , Heinrich Ferdinand Severin (1788–1850) were his younger brothers.

Career

Johann Friedrich August Severin did his Abitur at the Züllichau Pedagogy in 1799 and initially studied mathematics in Frankfurt / Oder . In 1805 he took an exam as a construction conductor and was mentioned in 1813/14 as a hydraulic engineering conductor with the government in Liegnitz . In 1816 he was transferred to Berlin, where he was responsible for land, water and highway construction in the Neumark (east of the Oder) and Posen as well as highway and agricultural construction in Silesia . In 1819 he was appointed Factory Commission Council. In 1821 he was one of the first four lecturers at the newly founded industrial institute, where he taught arithmetic , mechanical engineering , statics and mechanics until 1828 . After the senior building officer in Rothe was retired, Severin was appointed a member of the senior building deputation in 1828 and was appointed secret senior building officer. In the following years he made regular and systematic inspection trips through Pomerania and the province of Prussia . In collaboration with Schinkel , he drew designs for a garrison hospital (1829) and an artillery armory (1840) in Kolberg . From 1832 to 1835 the government building in Gumbinnen was built according to his designs . From 1844 he was also involved in the construction of the Oberland Canal between Elbing and Osterode in East Prussia . From 1848 to 1849 he was director of the Bauakademie together with Busse and Hagen . In 1849 he was seconded to Danzig to deliberate on the construction of a war port and, after Schmid's resignation, took over the management of the Oberbaudeputation on May 10, 1849. After the senior building deputation was closed in 1849, he became a real secret senior building officer at the Ministry of Public Works in 1850.

literature

  • Christiane Brandt-Salloum, Ralph Jaeckel, Constanze Krause, Oliver Sander, Reinhart Fahrt, Michaela Utpatel and Stephan Waldhoff: Inventory on the history of the Prussian building administration 1723-1848 . Editor: Reinhart Route. 2 volumes (publications from the archives of Prussian cultural property; work reports, No. 7). Self-published by the Secret State Archives Prussian Cultural Heritage , Berlin 2005. PDF , accessed on March 20, 2020

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hans Joachim Wefeld : Engineers from Berlin: 300 years of technical schooling , Haude & Spener, 1988, p. 79. ( limited preview on Google Book Search ); Uwe Kieling : Berlin: Buildings and Master Builders from the Gothic to 1945 , Berlin Edition, 2003, ISBN 3-8148-0095-8 , p. 266. ( limited preview on Google Book Search ).
  2. ↑ Neumark high school graduates 1789–1806. Retrieved March 20, 2020 .
  3. ↑ GStA PK, I. HA Rep. 151, No. 9817
  4. ↑ GStA PK, I. HA Rep. 93 B, No. 617
  5. ↑ GStA PK, I. HA Rep. 89, No. 28509
  6. ^ General housing gazette for Berlin for the year 1826. Retrieved on March 23, 2020 .
  7. ^ Johann Friedrich August Severin on Catalogus Professorum, professors at the TU Berlin and their predecessors.
  8. ↑ GStA PK, I. HA Rep. 93 B, No. 19
  9. ↑ GStA PK, I. HA Rep. 93 D, No. 1
  10. ^ Eva Börsch-Supan, Zofia Ostrowska-Kębłowska: The provinces of East and West Prussia and the Grand Duchy of Posen . Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-422-06380-3 , p. 75 .
  11. ↑ GStA PK, I. HA Rep. 93 B, No. 21
  12. ↑ GStA PK, I. HA Rep. 93 D, No. 7/4
  13. ↑ GStA PK, I. HA Rep. 93 B, No. 955
personal data
SURNAME Severin, Johann Friedrich August
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Severin, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect, Prussian building officer and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH between 1780 and 1782
DATE OF DEATH September 14, 1861
Place of death Berlin