Philipp Bernard François Berson

Philipp Bernard François Berson (born July 12, 1754 in Berlin ; † 1835 ) was a German architect and Prussian construction clerk .

life and work

Berson was born the son of the caterer François Berson from Pally near Paris and his wife Marie Catherine b. Schlott from Bamberg . In the years 1775 to 1787 he was involved in the royal immediate buildings in Berlin, first as a conductor , later as a building inspector, in 1787 he was employed as an assessor at the royal building department and in 1790 he was appointed secret senior building officer. He was in charge of the agricultural affairs of East and West Prussia. At the beginning of the 1790s he published an architectural journal together with his counterparts Riedel , Gilly and others. After the great fire in Neuruppin in 1787, King Friedrich Wilhelm II was committed to the rapid rebuilding of the city. Together with the royal master builder Bernhard Matthias Brasch, Berson designed a spacious, uniform urban complex in the classical style. According to Berson's plans, the Protestant parish church of St. Marien in Neuruppin was built between 1801 and 1804 for the also burned down Marienkirche . After the Oberbaudepartement was dissolved in 1806 and replaced by the technical Oberbaudeputation , he was retired in 1811.

Fonts

• Manual of bourgeois architecture or instruction for builders and foremen: the same for wall and room polishers for the construction and furnishing of bourgeois houses. Berlin, Leipzig 1820

literature

• Julius Eduard Hitzig : Scholarly Berlin in 1825 . Ferdinand Dümmler, Berlin 1826, p. 19, 20 .
• Rolf Straubel : Biographical manual of the Prussian administrative and judicial officials 1740–1806 / 15 Part 1 . KG Saur, Munich 2009, p. 71 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Evangelical parish church of St. Mary. In: Photo archive Photo Marburg. Retrieved January 29, 2020 .