Jonas ghost

Jonas Geist , bourgeois Johann Friedrich Geist (born June 4, 1936 in Lübeck ; † January 6, 2009 ibid), was a German architect , urban planner , architectural historian and author .

Life

After attending the Katharineum high school in Lübeck , Geist studied architecture at the TU Berlin , where he was a student of Ernst Heinrich . He received his doctorate in 1969 with the dissertation Passagen, a building type from the 19th century , which was published in three editions due to its strong international recognition, and in 1971 he was appointed assistant professor. After his habilitation in 1977, he received a call from the Hochschule der Künste in Berlin that same year , which he accepted. As Julius Posener's successor , he became professor of history, theory and criticism of architecture. In 2004 he retired .

Geist established scientific research in the history of architecture and style and made reference to the associated forms of society. The three-volume work Das Berliner Mietshaus (1740–1989), in which his approach to building research is presented, was created in collaboration with Klaus Kürvers .

Since 1993 Geist has been a member of the Berlin Academy of the Arts , in whose architecture archive his library is kept.

Fonts (selection)

• Passages, a 19th century building type . Berlin 1969 (additional dissertation TU Berlin from June 2, 1969)
• Fidus . 1868–1948, on the aesthetic practice of bourgeois refugee movements . Rogner & Bernhard , Munich 1972, ISBN 3-920802-86-1 (with Janos Frecot and Diethart Kerbs )
• Try to raise the Holsten Gate to Lübeck in your mind a little. Wagenbach, Berlin 1976, ISBN 3-8031-2012-8
• The Berlin apartment building. Vol. 1. 1740-1862 . Prestel, Munich 1980, ISBN 3-7913-0524-7 (with Klaus Kürvers )
• The Berlin apartment building. Vol. 2, 1862-1945 . Prestel, Munich 1984, ISBN 3-7913-0696-0 (with Klaus Kürvers)
• The Berlin apartment building. Vol. 3. 1945–1989 . Prestel, Munich 1989, ISBN 3-7913-0719-3 (with Klaus Kürvers)

literature

A complete bibliography was published posthumously, still compiled with the assistance of Jonas Geist. The UdK maintains a Jonas Geist archive.

• Klaus Kürvers, Matthias Seidel (Ed.): Johann Friedrich Geist. Bibliography Johann Friedrich (Jonas) Geist, 1965–2005. ( Writings from the archive of the Berlin University of the Arts ; Vol. 16). University of the Arts, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-89462-200-8 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The UdK Berlin mourns the loss of Prof. Dr. Jonas ghost
2. ↑ Volker Plagemann : The history of building tasks as a social history . In: The Architect . 11–12 / 2004, Berlin 2004, p. 49: “The interesting thing was ... the forgotten building tasks of the late 18th and 19th centuries. At the TH Aachen, where I was an assistant from 1966 to 1973, suddenly all architecture assistants had Jonas Geist's volume on the history of the passages under their arms. "
3. ↑ http://www.adk.de/de/archiv/archivStock/baukunst/?hg=bau&we_objectID=623

Web links

• Literature by and about Jonas Geist in the catalog of the German National Library
• On the death of Jonas Geist - obituary in BauNetz , January 9, 2009