Friedrich Ludwig Persius
Ludwig Persius (* February 15, 1803 in Potsdam, † July 12, 1845 ) was a Prussian architect and student of Karl Friedrich Schinkel. Persius assisted Schinkel, among others, the construction of Charlottenhof Castle and the Roman Baths in Sanssouci Park in Potsdam. In addition, he was involved in the construction of the Great Fontaine (before the Sanssouci Palace ), the Church of Peace, the Orangery and the Norman tower ( on the ruins of the mountain, towards the Schloss Sanssouci ).
Life
Ludwig Persius attended the public school and the high school in Potsdam. From 1817 to 1819 he was an employee of the building inspector God Help Hecker; he enrolled in the carpentry trade. In 1819 he began a surveyor training at the Academy of Architecture in Berlin and, in March 1821, the surveyor examination. From 1821 worked as Persius Baukondukteur in Potsdam, inter alia, Karl Friedrich Schinkel in the construction of the castle and church on the estates of Count Potocki in Krakow. In 1824 he became a member of Architects of Berlin. In Glienicke he worked as an architect under bauausführender Schinkel. In 1826 he passed the examination builder at the Academy of Architecture in Berlin and was Baukondukteur in Charlottenhof.
1827 married Pauline Persius Sello ( 1808-1883 ), sister of Hermann Ludwig Sello from the famous Hofgärtner family Sello. From this marriage the daughters Elisabeth ( 1829-80 ) and Marie Reinhold ( 1835-1912 ), Conrad ( 1836-1903 ) and Felix went ( 1834-47 ), and the sons Louis Paul ( 1832-1902 ), ( 1842-1885 ) out.
In 1829 he was building inspector with the Royal Government in Potsdam. 1833 was his first self- construction: He built the Kunstmühlen (near the Roman Baths ) to a dwelling house for the gardener hand man around. In 1834 he was royal Hofbauinspektor.
In 1840 he undertook a trip to the Rhine, which led him among other things to Heidelberg and Bacharach and pride to the castle rock and Ehrenbreitstein. In 1841 he traveled to Paris, where he also visited Munich, Strasbourg, Andernach, Remagen- Rolandseck, Bad Godesberg and Cologne. In 1842 he undertook a journey again: Lehnin, Chorin, hall and up to Erfurt.
1841 appointed Friedrich Wilhelm IV Persius to his court architect. In 1842 he was royal building officer and member of the Upper Construction Authority. 1843/44 Persius worked among others for Prince Pueckler.
1843 brought him again a trip to the Rhine (including Bingen, Bad Godesberg and Trier). In 1844 he traveled to Bad Muskau and Holland. In 1845 he undertook a journey to Italy: via Nimes, Marseille and Genoa, Rome, Naples, Vicenza, Padua, Venice and Verona.
1845 Persius was appointed retroactively to October 12, 1842 Oberbaurat. On 12 July 1845 he died and was buried at the cemetery in Potsdam- Bornstedt (near the Bornstedt ).