Rudolf Bergau

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Rudolf Bergau , completely Friedrich Julius Rudolf Bergau , (born January 6, 1836 in Friedrichsruh near Tapiau (1928 incorporated into Pregelswalde, Wehlau district ); † March 26, 1905 in Nuremberg ) was a German art historian and architect.

Life

After attending the high school in Königsberg from 1846 to 1854 and an intermezzo as a Baueleve with a Königsberg castle building inspector, Bergau studied architecture at the Royal Building Academy and archeology at the University of Berlin from 1855 to 1858 . After a period of construction projects and trips to Italy in the years 1861–1863 and 1865, he taught from 1868 to 1872 as a professor at the Nuremberg School of Applied Arts . He then devoted himself to scientific publications as a privateer . His work on building and monument inventory in the province of Brandenburg is considered to be trend-setting. As an employee of the Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie , he was responsible for a number of articles.

estate

Today in the Nuremberg City Library held in custody pedigree that Bergau at the beginning of his studies in 1856 docked and time continually led his life, shows a variety of contacts also prominent representatives of science and culture of his time as Alexander von Humboldt , Karl Richard Lepsius , Friedrich Overbeck , Ferdinand Gregorovius and more. His collection of gems and gem pastes or what has been preserved from them has been in the Germanic National Museum in Nuremberg since 1957 . Only a few parts of his correspondence can be found online.

Works

  • The pile dwellings and the patriotic archeology . In: Neue Prussische Provinzial-Blätter , fourth episode. Volume 4. Koenigsberg 1867, pp. 349-358.
  • To the news of pagan antiquity in Prussia . In: Neue Prussische Provinzial-Blätter , fourth episode. Volume 4. Koenigsberg 1867, pp. 719-722.
  • The old Marienkirche in Gdansk . In: Year books for art history (A. von Zahn, ed.). Volume 1. Leipzig 1868, pp. 123-137.
  • The Krockow Church . In: New Prussian Provincial Papers . Fourth episode. Volume 5, Königsberg 1868, pp. 326-330.
  • A Missal Magdeburgense with five glued-in shot sheets from the Royal Library of Königsberg i. Pr. In: New Prussian Provincial Papers . Fourth episode. Volume 5, Königsberg 1868, pp. 699-716.
  • Schinkel's design for a mansion in Ulkau . In: New Prussian Provincial Papers . Fourth episode. Volume 6, Königsberg 1869, pp. 234-237.
  • The main house of the Order in Marienburg in Prussia. Habel, Berlin 1871 ( online at the University and State Library Düsseldorf )
  • Inventory of architectural and art monuments in the province of Brandenburg. Voss, Berlin 1885 ( online at the University Library Potsdam )

Web links

Individual notes

  1. ^ All ADB articles by Rudolf Bergau in the Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie ( Wikisource ).
  2. ↑ Signature: Nor. H. 1124 (description as PDF online) . (List of single carriers in the Repertorium Alborum Amicorum)
  3. ^ Carina Weiss: Antique gems in German collections. The antique gems of the Friedrich Julius Rudolf Bergau collection in the Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg. Nuremberg 1996. ISBN 3-926982-45-4 .
  4. ^ Correspondence references to Rudolf Bergau online at the Kalliope network .
  5. ↑ A 'Gut Ulkau' is not listed in topographical handbooks of the 19th century, so this is probably a student prank (Ulk), which does not necessarily mean that the discussed design could not come from Schinkel anyway .
personal data
SURNAME Bergau, Rudolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bergau, Friedrich Julius Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian and architect
DATE OF BIRTH January 6, 1836
PLACE OF BIRTH Friedrichsruh
DATE OF DEATH March 26, 1905
Place of death Nuremberg