Richard Borrmann

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Richard Borrmann (born December 27, 1852 in Graudenz ; † March 26, 1931 near Berlin ) was a German building researcher and building historian.

Life

Richard Borrmann, the son of the manor owner Alexander Borrmann and the pastor's daughter Adele (née Jakobi), attended the Pforta State School from 1866 to 1876 and studied architecture with Friedrich Adler from 1874 to 1878 at the Berlin Building Academy . After the site manager examination , Borrmann accompanied his teacher to the Olympia excavation site as a trainee lawyer , where he took part in the last three of the six campaigns. One focus of his task was the investigation and reconstruction of the roof terracottas. During these years study trips took him through large parts of Greece, to Sicily and Constantinople .

After the temporary end of the excavations in Olympia, Borrmann passed the 2nd state examination to become a government master builder ( Assessor ) in 1885 and worked in the state building administration. From 1887 onwards, on behalf of the Berlin magistrate , he compiled an inventory of the architectural and art monuments of Berlin (Berlin 1893). From 1892 to 1904 Borrmann worked as a director's assistant at the Kunstgewerbemuseum Berlin . He dealt with ancient, medieval, Islamic and contemporary monuments. On April 1, 1904, Borrmann took over the chair of building history at the Technical University of Charlottenburg, succeeding Friedrich Adler . In the academic year 1908/1909 he was rector of the Technical University, since 1919 head of the Schinkel Museum. His lectures mainly dealt with urban planning topics. For his services, Borrmann was appointed a secret building councilor and a member of the Prussian Academy of Building . The technical universities in Berlin and Munich awarded him an honorary doctorate (Dr.-Ing. E. h.). In 1921 he retired .

Fonts (selection)

  • With Karl Siebold , Friedrich Graeber and Wilhelm Dörpfeld : About the use of terracottas on the geison and roof of Greek buildings , G. Reimer, Berlin 1881. as digital copy: [1]
  • The architectural and art monuments of Berlin. With a historical introduction by P. Clauswitz . Julius Springer's publishing house, Berlin 1893 ( digitized in the Internet Archive ). Unchangeable Reprinted by Gebrüder Mann Verlag, Berlin 1982, ISBN 3-7861-1356-4 .
  • (Ed.): Recordings of medieval wall and ceiling paintings in Germany. Wasmuth, Berlin 1897 (vol. 1), 1928 (vol. 2).
  • The architecture of antiquity and Islam in the Middle Ages. EA Seemann, Leipzig 1904.
  • From urban development in the Islamic East. Ernst, Berlin 1914.
  • Baalbek . In: Zeitschrift für Bauwesen , vol. 72, 1922, pp. 249-254 ( digitized version of the Central and State Library Berlin ).

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SURNAME Borrmann, Richard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German building researcher
DATE OF BIRTH December 27, 1852
PLACE OF BIRTH Graudenz
DATE OF DEATH March 26, 1931
Place of death Berlin