Karl Eduard Aeschlimann

Charles Edward Aeschlimann (* possibly on February 17, 1808, was baptized on 7 August 1808 in Burgdorf, † April 4, 1893 in Yalta ) was a court architect of the Russian royal family.

Life

Charles Edward Aeschlimann was a son of the potter Johann Heinrich Aeschlimann and his wife Marie. He visited the Burger schools in Burgdorf and was then trained at the Académie des Beaux -Arts in Paris and worked as an assistant to the city architect of Bern. In 1828 he traveled to the Black Sea. He was traveling companion of the Spanish Count Orlando de la Blanca. Approximately 1830 to 1860 he worked as a court architect of the Russian Imperial family on the south coast of the Crimea, especially in the district of Greater Yalta. He prepared a Master Plan for this area and designed a number of private and public buildings, including the first hotel in Yalta. Also the construction of the castle in Alupka Vorontsov for the family, he was involved.

Aeschlimann, who had married in 1836 in Simferopol Elisa Mason, a daughter of Johann Jakob Maurer - fishermen from Schaffhausen, was knighted in 1850.