Carl Ferdinand Langhans

Carl Ferdinand Langhans (* January 14, 1781 or 1782 in Breslau, † November 22, 1869 in Berlin) was a German architect.

Life

Langhans was born as the son of the architect Carl Gotthard Langhans. Like his father, he distinguished himself among others especially as a theater architect of his major works in the transitional period from classicism to historicism are the inn (later Zenner ) in Alt Treptow in 1820, the Berlin Old Palace, known as the Kroll Opera House has become the Berlin Opera House, city ​​Theatre in Wroclaw, which is now used as an opera house, and the New Theatre in Leipzig.

In addition, Langhans designed after the catastrophic fire of the Opera House by Georg Wenceslaus von Knobelsdorff the construction of the Staatsoper Unter den Linden from 1843 to 1844. In his hometown of Breslau many buildings, such as the Elftausendjungfrauen Church (1821-1823) built the behalf of Johann Gottlieb Korn (1765-1837) in Breslau Elbing, consecrated on September 30, 1824 St. Mary's Chapel in Oswitz District (1822 - 1824) and the White Stork synagogue ( 1826-1829 ) created in the center of it.

Langhans ' grave is in the cemetery III of Jerusalem and the New Church in Berlin- Kreuzberg. The grave stone is decorated with a bronze relief portrait, which was created by the sculptor Franz Rosse.