Otto Thienemann

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Otto Thienemann (born August 11, 1827 in Gotha , † November 28, 1905 in Vienna ; full name: Otto Friedrich Thienemann ) was an Austrian - German architect .

Life

Thienemann came from the important Gotha lawyers and booksellers family Thienemann. He was the sixth and last child of the Duke of Saxony-Gotha Chamber Consultant and Councilor Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Thienemann, who was one of the so-called Seven Wise Men of Old Gotha, and his first wife, the Gotha pastor's daughter Friederika Henrietta Christiana Grobstich. He first studied at the Vienna Polytechnic and at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts , then in Berlin . In 1851 he returned to Vienna and worked in the architecture office of Eduard van der Nüll and August Sicard von Sicardsburg , and later with Ludwig Förster.

Thienemann worked on the planning of the Westbahn for eight years and eventually managed the construction of the Rudolfsbahn as chief architect . He received second prize in the competition to build the Vienna City Hall . He was the kuk city architect of Vienna and kuk building officer.

He was married to Luise Hoffmann, (born November 2, 1837 in Königswalde [Neumark] ; † August 17, 1914 in Vienna), daughter of the pastor of Königswalde Julius Adolph Hoffmann and Johanna Dorothea Caroline Thienemann, a sister of the father. The marriage resulted in six children who are listed in the appendix to the genealogy of the Schleswig-Thuringian Jacobs family in the German gender book.

Otto Thienemann died in Vienna after eight years of sickness; his grave is at the Evangelical Cemetery in Simmering .

buildings

Kärntnerhof-Passage 1878

literature

Web links

Commons : Otto Thienemann  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

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