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Gottfried Semper, the Glossary

Gottfried Semper (29 November 1803 – 15 May 1879) was a German architect, art critic, and professor of architecture who designed and built the Semper Opera House in Dresden between 1838 and 1841.^[1]

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German architecture writers

Acropolis

An acropolis was the settlement of an upper part of an ancient Greek city, especially a citadel, and frequently a hill with precipitous sides, mainly chosen for purposes of defense.

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Affoltern am Albis

Affoltern am Albis (abbreviated as Affoltern a.A.; Swiss German: Affoltere) is a town and a municipality in the district of Affoltern in the canton of Zürich in Switzerland.

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Altona, Hamburg

Altona, also called Hamburg-Altona, is the westernmost urban borough (Bezirk) of the German city state of Hamburg.

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Ancient Greece (Hellás) was a northeastern Mediterranean civilization, existing from the Greek Dark Ages of the 12th–9th centuries BC to the end of classical antiquity, that comprised a loose collection of culturally and linguistically related city-states and other territories.

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Ancient Rome

In modern historiography, ancient Rome is the Roman civilisation from the founding of the Italian city of Rome in the 8th century BC to the collapse of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century AD.

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Anthony, King of Saxony

Anthony of Saxony (Anton; 27 December 1755 – 6 June 1836) was a King of Saxony from the House of Wettin.

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Archaeology

Archaeology or archeology is the study of human activity through the recovery and analysis of material culture.

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Architectural design competition

An architectural design competition is a type of design competition in which an organization that intends on constructing a new building invites architects to submit design proposals.

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Architectural theory

Architectural theory is the act of thinking, discussing, and writing about architecture.

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Architecture

Architecture is the art and technique of designing and building, as distinguished from the skills associated with construction.

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Art critic

An art critic is a person who is specialized in analyzing, interpreting, and evaluating art.

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Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington

Field Marshal Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, (1 May 1769 – 14 September 1852) was an Anglo-Irish military officer and statesman who was one of the leading military and political figures in Britain during the late 18th and early 19th centuries, serving twice as British prime minister.

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Athens

Athens is the capital and largest city of Greece.

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Baron Karl von Hasenauer

Baron Karl von Hasenauer (Karl Freiherr von Hasenauer) (20 July 1833 – 4 January 1894) was an important Austrian architect and key representative of the Historismus school.

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Bavaria

Bavaria, officially the Free State of Bavaria, is a state in the southeast of Germany.

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Bayreuth

Bayreuth (Bareid) is a town in northern Bavaria, Germany, on the Red Main river in a valley between the Franconian Jura and the Fichtel Mountains.

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Bayreuth Festspielhaus

The Bayreuth Festspielhaus or Bayreuth Festival Theatre (Bayreuther Festspielhaus) is an opera house north of Bayreuth, Germany, built by the 19th-century German composer Richard Wagner and dedicated solely to the performance of his stage works. Gottfried Semper and Bayreuth Festspielhaus are Richard Wagner.

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Biedermeier

The Biedermeier period was an era in Central Europe between 1815 and 1848 during which the middle classes grew in number and the arts began to appeal to their sensibilities.

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Burgtheater

The Burgtheater (literally: "Castle Theater" but alternatively translated as "(Imperial) Court Theater"), originally known as K.K. Theater an der Burg, then until 1918 as the K.K. Hofburgtheater, is the national theater of Austria in Vienna.

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Classical antiquity

Classical antiquity, also known as the classical era, classical period, classical age, or simply antiquity, is the period of cultural European history between the 8th century BC and the 5th century AD comprising the interwoven civilizations of ancient Greece and ancient Rome known together as the Greco-Roman world, centered on the Mediterranean Basin.

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Denmark

Denmark (Danmark) is a Nordic country in the south-central portion of Northern Europe.

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Dorothea Schröder

Dorothea Schröder (born 25 April 1957) is a German musicologist.

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Dresden

Dresden (Upper Saxon: Dräsdn; Drježdźany) is the capital city of the German state of Saxony and it is the second most populous city after Leipzig.

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Dresden Academy of Fine Arts

The Dresden Academy of Fine Arts (German Hochschule für Bildende Künste Dresden), often abbreviated HfBK Dresden or simply HfBK, is a vocational university of visual arts located in Dresden, Germany.

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Dresden school

The Dresden school was a baroque Neo-Renaissance architectural style developed in Dresden, Germany, primarily by Gottfried Semper and Hermann Nicolai.

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Eidgenossenschaft

Eidgenossenschaft is a German word specific to the political history of Switzerland.

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ETH Zurich

ETH Zurich (Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich; Federal Institute of Technology Zurich) is a public research university in Zürich, Switzerland.

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Franz Christian Gau

Franz Christian Gau (15 June 1790, in Cologne – January 1854, in Paris) was a French architect and archaeologist of German descent.

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Friedrich von Gärtner

Friedrich von Gärtner (10 December 1791 in Koblenz – 21 April 1847 in Munich) was a German architect. Gottfried Semper and Friedrich von Gärtner are 19th-century German architects.

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Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister

The (Old Masters Gallery) in Dresden, Germany, displays around 750 paintings from the 15th to the 18th centuries.

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Great Exhibition

The Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations, also known as the Great Exhibition or the Crystal Palace Exhibition (in reference to the temporary structure in which it was held), was an international exhibition that took place in Hyde Park, London, from 1 May to 15 October 1851.

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Greece

Greece, officially the Hellenic Republic, is a country in Southeast Europe.

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Hamburg

Hamburg (Hamborg), officially the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg,.

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Heinrich Heine

Christian Johann Heinrich Heine (born Harry Heine; 13 December 1797 – 17 February 1856) was a German poet, writer and literary critic. Gottfried Semper and Heinrich Heine are university of Göttingen alumni.

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Historiography

Historiography is the study of the methods used by historians in developing history as an academic discipline, and by extension, the term historiography is any body of historical work on a particular subject.

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Hof, Bavaria

Hof is a town on the banks of the Saale in the northeastern corner of the German state of Bavaria, in the Franconian region, at the Czech border and the forested Fichtel Mountains and Franconian Forest upland regions.

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Institute of technology

An institute of technology (also referred to as: technological university, technical university, university of technology, technological educational institute, technical college, polytechnic university, polytechnic school, or just polytechnic) is an institution of tertiary education (such as a university or college) that specializes in engineering, technology, applied science, and natural sciences.

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Italy

Italy, officially the Italian Republic, is a country in Southern and Western Europe.

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Johanneum Gymnasium

The Gelehrtenschule des Johanneums (Academic School of the Johanneum, short: Johanneum) is a Gymnasium, or grammar school, in Hamburg, Germany.

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John, King of Saxony

John (12 December 1801 – 29 October 1873) was King of Saxony from 9 August 1854 until his death in 1873. Gottfried Semper and John, King of Saxony are Recipients of the Pour le Mérite (civil class).

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July Revolution

The French Revolution of 1830, also known as the July Revolution (révolution de Juillet), Second French Revolution, or Trois Glorieuses ("Three Glorious "), was a second French Revolution after the first in 1789.

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Karlsruhe

Karlsruhe (South Franconian: Kallsruh) is the third-largest city of the German state of Baden-Württemberg, after its capital Stuttgart and Mannheim, and the 22nd-largest city in the nation, with 308,436 inhabitants.

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Kingdom of Italy

The Kingdom of Italy (Regno d'Italia) was a state that existed from 17 March 1861, when Victor Emmanuel II of Sardinia was proclaimed King of Italy, until 10 June 1946, when the monarchy was abolished, following civil discontent that led to an institutional referendum on 2 June 1946.

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Kristallnacht

Kristallnacht or the Night of Broken Glass, also called the November pogrom(s) (Novemberpogrome), was a pogrom against Jews carried out by the Nazi Party's nocat.

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Kunsthistorisches Museum

The Kunsthistorisches Museum ("Museum of Art History", often referred to as the "Museum of Fine Arts") is an art museum in Vienna, Austria.

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Leipzig Synagogue

The Leipzig Synagogue (Große Gemeindesynagoge) was a Jewish synagogue, located in Leipzig, in the state of Saxony, Germany.

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Ludwig Börne

Karl Ludwig Börne (born Loeb Baruch; 6 May 1786 – 12 February 1837) was a German-Jewish political writer and satirist, who is considered part of the Young Germany movement.

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Ludwig II of Bavaria

Ludwig II (Ludwig Otto Friedrich Wilhelm; 25 August 1845 – 13 June 1886), also called the Swan King or the Fairy Tale King (der Märchenkönig), was King of Bavaria from 1864 until his death in 1886. Gottfried Semper and Ludwig II of Bavaria are Richard Wagner.

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Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich

The Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (simply University of Munich or LMU; Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München) is a public research university in Munich, Bavaria, Germany.

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Mathematics

Mathematics is a field of study that discovers and organizes abstract objects, methods, theories and theorems that are developed and proved for the needs of empirical sciences and mathematics itself.

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May Uprising in Dresden

The May Uprising took place in Dresden, Kingdom of Saxony in 1849; it was one of the last of the series of events known as the Revolutions of 1848.

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Moorish Revival architecture

Moorish Revival or Neo-Moorish is one of the exotic revival architectural styles that were adopted by architects of Europe and the Americas in the wake of Romanticist Orientalism.

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Munich

Munich (München) is the capital and most populous city of the Free State of Bavaria, Germany.

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Napoleonic Wars

The Napoleonic Wars (1803–1815) were a series of conflicts fought between the First French Empire under Napoleon Bonaparte (1804–1815) and a fluctuating array of European coalitions.

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Natural History Museum, Vienna

The Natural History Museum Vienna (Naturhistorisches Museum Wien) is a large natural history museum located in Vienna, Austria.

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Polychrome

Polychrome is the "practice of decorating architectural elements, sculpture, etc., in a variety of colors." The term is used to refer to certain styles of architecture, pottery, or sculpture in multiple colors.

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Protestant Cemetery, Rome

The Non-Catholic Cemetery (Cimitero Acattolico), also referred to as the Protestant Cemetery (Cimitero dei protestanti) or the English Cemetery (Cimitero degli Inglesi), is a private cemetery in the rione of Testaccio in Rome.

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Richard Wagner

Wilhelm Richard Wagner (22 May 181313 February 1883) was a German composer, theatre director, polemicist, and conductor who is chiefly known for his operas (or, as some of his mature works were later known, "music dramas"). Gottfried Semper and Richard Wagner are German expatriates in Switzerland and People of the Revolutions of 1848.

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Rome

Rome (Italian and Roma) is the capital city of Italy.

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Semper Gallery

The Semper Gallery or Semper Building (German: Sempergalerie or Semperbau) in Dresden, Germany, was designed by the architect Gottfried Semper and constructed from 1847 until 1854.

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Semper Synagogue

The Semper Synagogue, also known as the Dresden Synagogue or Old Synagogue (Alte Synagoge), was a Jewish synagogue, located in Dresden, in the Saxony region of Germany.

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Semperoper

The Semperoper is the opera house of the Sächsische Staatsoper Dresden (Saxon State Opera) and the concert hall of the Staatskapelle Dresden (Saxon State Orchestra).

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Strasbourg

Strasbourg (Straßburg) is the prefecture and largest city of the Grand Est region of eastern France, at the border with Germany in the historic region of Alsace.

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The Crystal Palace

The Crystal Palace was a cast iron and plate glass structure, originally built in Hyde Park, London, to house the Great Exhibition of 1851.

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The Four Elements of Architecture

The Four Elements of Architecture is a book by the German architect Gottfried Semper.

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University of Göttingen

The University of Göttingen, officially the Georg August University of Göttingen, (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, commonly referred to as Georgia Augusta) is a distinguished public research university in the city of Göttingen, Lower Saxony, Germany.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gottfried_Semper

Also known as Prof. Gottfried Semper.

, May Uprising in Dresden, Moorish Revival architecture, Munich, Napoleonic Wars, Natural History Museum, Vienna, Polychrome, Protestant Cemetery, Rome, Richard Wagner, Rome, Semper Gallery, Semper Synagogue, Semperoper, Strasbourg, The Crystal Palace, The Four Elements of Architecture, University of Göttingen, University of Zurich, Vienna, Vienna Ring Road, Villa Rosa (Dresden), Winterthur, Zurich, Zwickau, Zwinger (Dresden).

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Academic staff of the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts

German architecture writers

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