Carl Jonas Mylius

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Carl Jonas Mylius, lithograph by Adolf Dauthage , 1882

Carl Jonas Mylius (born September 6, 1839 in Frankfurt am Main ; † April 27, 1883 there ) was a German architect .

family

His father was the wealthy businessman Carl Mylius (1790-1870), born in Frankfurt and raised in England, who married his first wife Kunigunde Dorothea Schott (1807-1831) in 1824 and had four children with her. The widower married his second wife Fanny Aubin (1810-1846) in 1833, with whom he had five children. Carl Jonas was the second youngest child from this marriage. At the age of forty, he married Rosita Moeller in 1879 (* 1832 in Valparaíso / Chile , † 1934). His youngest brother was Adalbert Mylius (1843–1931), who became a PhD, chemist, partner and technical director of JR Geigy AG in Basel and the progenitor of the Basel branch of the Mylius family.

Life

Carl Jonas Mylius studied architecture at the Polytechnic in Zurich from 1858 to 1861 . One of his teachers here was Gottfried Semper . As was customary at the time, Mylius then expanded his knowledge by traveling, especially to Italy from 1863–65 . Back in Germany, he founded his own architecture office in Frankfurt am Main and joined forces with Alfred Friedrich Bluntschli to form an architectural community in 1871 . They were able to plan and build numerous private buildings and public facilities. Her most important works include the Vienna Central Cemetery (1871–1874) as well as the Deaconess House and the Senckenberg Library in Frankfurt. Mylius and Bluntschli built the Hotel Frankfurter Hof and Langenzell Castle in Neckargemünd in 1875/1876 . In 1876 they won the architecture competition to build the new town hall in Hamburg ; however, this design was not implemented. They also took part in the competitions for a collegiate building of the Kaiser-Wilhelms-Universität zu Strasbourg , for the Frankfurt main station and for the parliament building of the German Reichstag in Berlin (1872).

Carl Jonas Mylius died at the age of 43 and was buried in the crypt hall in Frankfurt's main cemetery.

The Mylius-BLUNTSCHLI Street on the western edge of the Vienna cemetery recalls the two architects.

The Mylius Street in Frankfurt's West, however, was not born in Frankfurt am Main, named after him, but according to his relatives Heinrich Mylius (1769-1854). He got rich in Milan, donated a. a. his hometown considerable sums, which u. a. the institution for the deaf and dumb and the blind, the toddler schools and the Senckenberg Natural Research Society. Carl Jonas was often a guest in his villa Mylius-Vigoni on Lake Como.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Karl Jonas Mylius. In: arch INFORM .
  2. ^ Langenzell in the Rhein-Neckar-Wiki
  3. ^ Holdings on Mylius and Bluntschi (27 individual sheets) in the Architecture Museum of the Technical University of Berlin
  4. ^ Knerger.de: The grave of Carl Jonas Mylius
  5. Inventory record in the joint union catalog