Julius Franz (architect)

Heinrich Carl Ludwig Julius Franz , later Franz Bey (1869) and Franz Pasha (1885) (* 25. August 1831 in jumping , Duchy of Nassau ; † 20th March 1915 in Graz ) was a native of Germany, in Egypt active architect .

Life

Julius Franz was the son of the ducal Nassau chief forester Wilhelm Franz and his wife Carolina. He graduated from high school in Weilheim , received his mathematical and scientific training from 1849 at the Polytechnic School in Karlsruhe and from 1852 at the Polytechnic Institute in Vienna. From the winter semester of 1852/53 he attended the preparatory and architecture school of the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts. In 1859 he entered the service of the Egyptian government. In 1861 he made a draft for the new building of a Protestant church in Alexandria, which was not carried out, however, in 1872/73 he was involved in the construction of the Protestant church in Cairo.

In 1863 he was appointed court architect by the western-oriented Khedive Ismail Pasha . Among other things, he built the Gezira Palace in Cairo in 1864 as a guest house for high-ranking foreign visitors. The palace is now part of a Marriott Hotel .

Franz also made an outstanding contribution to the collections and monuments of Islamic art in Egypt. He was a co-founder of the Museum of Islamic Art in Cairo.

In 1887 he first returned to Germany and lived in Graz from 1897. In 1904 the University of Graz awarded him an honorary doctorate.

Fonts

• with Régis de Curel: Cirque du Caire In: Revue générale de l'architecture et des travaux publics 27, 1869, pp. 276–277, plate 54.
• Cairo's new buildings . In: Romberg's Zeitschrift für Praktische Baukunst 31, 1871, pp. 193–198. 325-330 Pl. 21-22, 35-36.
• The architecture of Islam (= Handbook of Architecture II, 3, 2). Bergstrasser, Darmstadt 1887 ( digitized version ); 2nd edition 1896 ( digitized version ).
• The tomb mosque of Sultan Kait-Bai. (= Die Baukunst , Series 1, Book 3). Spemann, Berlin / Stuttgart no year [1898].
• A hike through the Arab monuments of Cairo. In: Deutsche Revue 27, 3, 1902, pp. 363–372 ( digitized version ).
• Cairo (= Famous Art Places 21). EA Seemann, Leipzig 1903.

literature

• Elke Pflugradt-Abdel Aziz: Islamized architecture in Cairo. Carl von Diebitsch and the court architect Julius Franz. Prussian entrepreneurship in 19th century Egypt. Dissertation University of Bonn 1992.
• Marcella Stern: Austria-Hungary's contribution to architecture in Egypt using the example of three architects. In: Austria and Egypt. Contributions to the history of relations from the 18th century to 1918. Cairo 1993, pp. 54–56.
• Morris L. Bierbrier: Who was who in Egyptology . 4th revised edition. Egypt Exploration Society, London 2012, ISBN 978-0-85698-207-1 , p. 200.
• Elke Pflugradt-Abdel Aziz: Julius Franz Pasha's Die Baukunst des Islam (Islamic architecture) of 1887 as part of the Manual of Architecture. In: Mercedes Volait (ed.): Le Caire dessiné et photographié au XIXe siècle . Paris 2013, ISBN 9782708409415 , pp. 297-310 ( digitized ).

Web links

• Architectural estate at the University of Vienna, design for Chérif Pascha's country house in Cairo
• Thorsten Stötzer: From Kemel to Egypt: Architect Julius Franz built the Gezira Palace in the 19th century , Wiesbadener Kurier December 2, 2017
• On the building history of the Gezira Palace in Cairo
• Article at IDREF