Franz Ludwig Carl Bohnstedt
Life
As the son of German immigrants Bohnstedt was born in Saint Petersburg. In 1839 he started at the University of Berlin to study philosophy, but he soon switched to architecture. After graduating, he returned in 1843 back to Saint Petersburg, where he worked as an architect.
In 1850 he married in Saint Petersburg Olga née van der Vliet, with whom he had three children, the architect Alfred Bohnstedt (1854-1906), the painter Ida Bohnstedt (1858-1916) and a daughter named Ella.
In 1863 he moved with his family to the capital city of Gotha in the duchy of Saxe-Gotha-Coburg, where he worked as municipal architect and many prestigious buildings and the Bahnhofstrasse, including buildings, as well as villas for private builders designed.
In the first architectural competition for the Reichstag building in Berlin in 1872 his design was awarded the first prize, but not executed.
Bohnstedt found his final resting place at the Gotha Cemetery IV. At its site clearance in 1951 of grave stone Bohnstedts was backed up, the (albeit without the crowning him once essay) in Ehrenhain stands in the main cemetery today. At the back of the grave marker rejects a plaque for his daughter Ida.
The city of Gotha named a street in the west of the city in honor of the architect in "Bohnstedtstraße".
In 1850 he married in Saint Petersburg Olga née van der Vliet, with whom he had three children, the architect Alfred Bohnstedt (1854-1906), the painter Ida Bohnstedt (1858-1916) and a daughter named Ella.
In 1863 he moved with his family to the capital city of Gotha in the duchy of Saxe-Gotha-Coburg, where he worked as municipal architect and many prestigious buildings and the Bahnhofstrasse, including buildings, as well as villas for private builders designed.
In the first architectural competition for the Reichstag building in Berlin in 1872 his design was awarded the first prize, but not executed.
Bohnstedt found his final resting place at the Gotha Cemetery IV. At its site clearance in 1951 of grave stone Bohnstedts was backed up, the (albeit without the crowning him once essay) in Ehrenhain stands in the main cemetery today. At the back of the grave marker rejects a plaque for his daughter Ida.
The city of Gotha named a street in the west of the city in honor of the architect in "Bohnstedtstraße".