Wilhelm Melhop

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Wilhelm Melhop (born March 11, 1856 in Hamburg ; † April 29, 1943 ibid) was a German architectural historian , topographer and building director for the city of Hamburg.

Life

Family graveyard Ohlsdorf cemetery

He was the only son of the writer Wilhelm Peter Melhop and his wife Hanchen Krüger (1817–1869). Wilhelm Melhop also published under the pseudonym Eduard Stralau .
In the 1920s he wrote works on the historical topography of the Hanseatic city of Hamburg. In 1932 he published a book about the Alster .

Wilhelm Melhop was buried above the rose garden in the Ohlsdorf cemetery .
In Hamburg-Ohlstedt , the Melhopweg was named after him.

Fonts

Große Reichenstrasse , architectural style illustration from
old Hamburg architecture
  • Historical topography of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg from 1880 to 1895 . (together with many supplements from older times) following the "historical topography" by CF Gaedechens . W. Mauke Sons, Hamburg 1895 ( uni-hamburg.de ).
  • Historical topography of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg from 1895 to 1920. With addenda until 1923/24 . In 2 volumes. Otto Meißner Verlag, Hamburg 1923 and 1925
  • Old Hamburg style of construction . Brief historical development of the architectural styles in Hamburg (shown on the secular building up to the resurrection of the city after the great fire of 1842, along with information about the area and life history). Boysen & Maasch, Hamburg 1908 ( digitizedhttp: //vorlage_digitalisat.test/1%3D~GB%3D~IA%3Dalthamburgischeb00melh~MDZ%3D%0A~SZ%3Dn6~doppelseiten%3D~LT%3D~PUR%3D - second revised edition 1925).
  • The Alster. Described historically, locally and in terms of river engineering ; with 5 map inserts and 421 text images. Paul Hartung, Hamburg 1932 (Reprint Heymann, undated [1972?])

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ older picture with pillow stone at frederiks.de
  2. ^ Hans Walden: Melhop, Wilhelm Peter . In: Franklin Kopitzsch, Dirk Brietzke (Hrsg.): Hamburgische Biographie . tape 2 . Christians, Hamburg 2003, ISBN 3-7672-1366-4 , pp. 280 .
personal data
SURNAME Melhop, Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Stralau, Eduard (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architectural historian and topographer
DATE OF BIRTH March 11, 1856
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH April 29, 1943
Place of death Hamburg