Otto Pius Hippius

Otto Pius Hippius (born 5 Maijul / May 17 1826greg in Saint Petersburg, .. .. † 29 Augustjul / September 10 1883greg in Kabolowka at Pargolovo near St. Petersburg ) was a deutschbaltischer architect.

Life and work

Otto Pius Hippius was the son of the German painter and lithographer Baltic Gustav Adolf Hippius (1792-1856) was born. Gustav Hippius ' father Thomas Hippius (1762-1819) came from theological circles and was a pastor in the Estonian Nissi; Otto Pius Hippius ' maternal great-grandfather was the Moravians Michael Ignatius ( 1713-1777 ).

Otto Pius Hippius was taught artistically early from his father. He first went to study in Germany. In 1849 he graduated from the Polytechnic Institute in Baden Karlsruhe. From 1849 to 1851 he studied at the Imperial Academy of Arts in the Russian capital Saint Petersburg. He then worked in St. Petersburg as an architect and educator at various art schools.

1864 Hippius was inducted into the Russian Academy of Sciences. From 1879, he held the title of professor.

Architectural works

Among his most famous architectural works

• The neo-Romanesque St. Charles's Church in Tallinn, Estonia (1862-1870, together with the Baltic German engineer Rudolf Bernhard )
• The castle in the South-Estonian Sangaste (1879-1883)
• The neo-Gothic church in Narva Alexander (1881-1884)

In addition Hippius responsible for buildings in St.-Petersburg ( main building of the Evangelical Hospital, production hall of the gas factory, House for officials of the War Department ) and the Caucasus. In Azerbaijan Hippius built an Armenian church.

In 1867 he took part in the tender for the Berliner Dom. In this context was also known Hippius ' 22 - page document, "May the Cathedral of Berlin to be a dome? ", Which in printing of the Imperial Academy of Sciences was published in St. Petersburg in 1871.

Private life

Otto Pius Hippius was with the Deutschbaltin Emma Karoline Charlotte Schmidt (1839-1924) married.