Johann Valerian Müller

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Müller's unrealized design of a green area for the Königsberg castle courtyard

Johann Valerian Müller (* 1771 in Marienwerder , West Prussia ; † 1839 in Königsberg (Prussia) ) was a German architect and Prussian construction clerk in Königsberg. He represented a simple classicism .

After studying mathematics at the Albertus University in Königsberg , he became a building inspector in Königsberg in 1798, war and domain councilor in 1800 and finally provincial building director of the province of East Prussia . For the Higher Regional Court in Königsberg he designed a new building for the eastern north wing of Königsberg Castle . The north walls from the time of the Teutonic Order were included. The execution took place in 1811 according to a plan revised by another hand. From 1806 to 1809 he built the city ​​theater in Königsberg and from 1811 to 1813 the building of the observatory . Well-known is the large city map of Königsberg that he recorded and published in 1815.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Robert Albinus: Königsberg Lexicon. Würzburg 2002, ISBN 3-88189-441-1 .
personal data
SURNAME Müller, Johann Valerian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect and Prussian building officer
DATE OF BIRTH 1771
PLACE OF BIRTH Marienwerder
DATE OF DEATH 1839
Place of death Königsberg (Prussia)