Christian Ulrich

Christian Ulrich (* April 27, 1836 in Vienna, † January 22, 1909 ) was an Austro- Hungarian architect and engineer.

Life

Christian Ulrich was the son of a mirror manufacturers. After public school he attended the Polytechnic and studied astronomy at the University of Vienna in 1855. This was followed by a visit to the Polytechnic in Karlsruhe before he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna under Carl Roesner, Eduard van der Null and August Sicard von Sicardsburg 1860. Study tours have taken him to France, Belgium and Italy. Approximately 1865-1885 Ulrich then worked as an architect in Vienna, where he worked from 1879 to 1885 with William of Flattich. In addition, he led from 1868 to parental mirror factory.

In the years 1885 to 1892 Ulrich was extremely successful in Hungary worked, so he accepted the Hungarian citizenship and lived in Budapest. In recognition of his tenure there, he was awarded the Imperial Order of Franz Joseph.

From 1892 Ulrich was again worked as an architect in Vienna. In 1896 he was appointed professor at the Technical University, where he held the chair of Utilitäts and railway construction until 1907. 1899-1900 he was rector of the university. 1905 married Ulrich even at an advanced age, his marriage remained childless.

Work

The special performance Ulrichs lies in its combination of architecture with the art of engineering. The most significant achievements in this area created Ulrich in Budapest, where he built such as the glass and iron construction of large industrial palace or before the grain elevator as part of the national exhibition. For the latter, he had invented the so-called system Ulrich and can be patented, a technological breakthrough.

Particularly in his later years in Vienna built Ulrich but also representative houses and banking skyline in neo-baroque style. Through his teaching at the Technical University Ulrich also had influence on the next generation of civil engineers and architects.

• Parliament House, Bucharest ( 1878)
• Teylers Museum, Haarlem (1878 )
• Several bank buildings and private buildings in Vienna (1879-1885), along with William of Flattich
• Grain elevator, Budapest ( 1883), destroyed in 1948
• Destroyed industry Palace of the Provincial Exhibition, Budapest (1885 ), 1947
• Bosnian Pavilion, National Exhibition Budapest ( 1885)
• Palais Ostffy, Erzsébet krt 28, Budapest ( 1885)
• Various warehouses and industrial plants in Hungary and northern Italy (1885-1892)
• Escompte Bank, Fővám tér 13-15, Budapest ( 1887)
• Department of Commerce, Budapest ( 1890 )
• Palais Torda, formerly Franzensring, Budapest ( 1890 )
• Residential house Ulrich, formerly customs office ring, Budapest ( 1890 )
• Castle in Kunhalom ( 1890 )
• Palais of the Viennese commercial association, John Alley 4, Vienna 1 ( 1892-1893 ) 1st Prize, together with Rudolf Dick
• Apartment building, Westbahnstraße 5, 7 Vienna (1894 ) ( execution Moritz and Joseph Sturany )
• Increase in the main building of the University of Technology, Karlsplatz 12-13, Vienna 4 (1898 ), together with Karl Mayr Eder
• Apartment building, Tuchlauben 1 / Nagler 2, Wien 1 (1901 )
• Residential and commercial building, Ziegler Gasse 26, Vienna 7 ( 1902 )
• Electro-technical Institute of the Technical University of Vienna, Gusshausstraße 25, Vienna 4 ( 1902-1904 ) and Carl Hochenegg

In addition, Ulrich conducted numerous indoor facilities and equipment of farm - parlor cars for the railroad.