Rudolf Heyn

Rudolf Heyn , also Rudolph Heyn , (born September 22, 1835 in Görlitz ; † June 1, 1916 in Dresden ; full name: Rudolf Johann Eduard Heyn ) was a German architect and university lecturer , and 1893/1894 rector of the Dresden University of Technology .

Life

Heyn's grave in the old Annenfriedhof

Heyn was the son of the Görlitz book and art dealer Eduard Heyn, his mother was a born Richter. He attended secondary school and from 1850 the building trade school in Zittau . He then received practical training from a master builder in Leipzig . In 1853 he went to the Dresden Art Academy as a student of Hermann Nicolai . In 1857 he became a teacher at the building trade school in Dresden and in 1858 assistant at the Dresden Polytechnic, the forerunner of the technical university . In 1860 he was appointed teacher for general building science and architectural drawing at the Polytechnic and worked from 1865 to 1901 as a full professor for building construction, building forms and style theory at the Polytechnic. His research focus was graphic statics. He was also in charge of the collection for building construction theory.

According to Heyn's planning, the building construction department of the Polytechnic was founded in 1875, so that it was also possible to study architecture there. Heyn was the head of this department from 1890 until his retirement in 1901. He was elected Rector of the Technical University by the Senate for the period of office 1893/1894. In 1915 the university awarded him an honorary doctorate . Heyn died in Dresden in 1916 and was buried in the Old Annenfriedhof .

As an architect, Heyn built, among other things, villas and schools in Dresden and Chemnitz as well as, with Richard Eck, the building of the Royal Saxon Polytechnic in Dresden on Strehlener Strasse from 1872 to 1875 , which was destroyed in 1945.

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Buildings (selection)

• from 1869: Construction supervision of the reconstruction of the polytechnic school on Antonsplatz in Dresden (based on plans by Gustav Heine )
• 1872–1875: Building of the Dresden Polytechnic (together with Richard Eck)

Fonts (selection)

• (with W. Fränkel): Atlas of the building industry. 1874.
• Reflection and perspective shadow construction. 1885.

literature

• Karin Fischer: Heyn, Rudolf (Rudolph) Johann Eduard . In: Institute for Saxon History and Folklore (Ed.): Saxon Biography .
• Karin Fischer: Heyn, Rudolf (Johann Eduard) . In: Dorit Petschel : 175 years of TU Dresden. Volume 3: The professors of the TU Dresden 1828–2003. Edited on behalf of the Society of Friends and Supporters of the TU Dresden e. V. von Reiner Pommerin , Böhlau, Cologne a. a. 2003, ISBN 3-412-02503-8 , pp. 367-368 ( limited preview in Google book search).