Emil Karl Alexander Flaminius (1807, Küstrin - 7 October 1893,

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and

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History

Flaminius grew up in Küstrin during the

Napoleonic Wars The Napoleonic Wars (1803–1815) were a series of major global conflicts pitting the French Empire and its allies, led by Napoleon I, against a fluctuating array of European states formed into various coalitions. It produced a period of Fren ...

and the period of reconstruction after the departure of the Napoleonic occupying forces in 1814. For twenty years he worked on the

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and

Warthe The river Warta ( , ; german: Warthe ; la, Varta) rises in central Poland and meanders greatly north-west to tributary, flow into the Oder, against the Germany, German border. About long, it is Poland's second-longest river within its borders a ...

dykes in his home town. In 1828 he moved to Berlin to study architecture at the

Bauakademie The Bauakademie (''Building Academy'') in Berlin, Germany, was a higher education school for the art of building to train master builders. It originated from the construction department of the Academy of Fine Arts and Mechanical Sciences (from ...

, where he came into contact with

Karl Friedrich Schinkel Karl Friedrich Schinkel (13 March 1781 – 9 October 1841) was a Prussian architect, city planner and painter who also designed furniture and stage sets. Schinkel was one of the most prominent architects of Germany and designed both neoclassica ...

. He frequently collaborated with Schinkel in the following years and even began to implement some of Schinkel's projects whilst still studying. For example, aged only 21, he worked with Schinkel on repairing the Frankfurter Marienkirche after the collapse of its south tower - the project did not replace the south tower, but did produce one of the largest works of

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. Flaminius graduated from the Bauakademie in 1830, after only two years' study. Between 1832 and 1836 he worked to erect a new home for the Bauakademie, using designs by Schinkel.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Flaminius, Emil 1807 births 1893 deaths 19th-century German architects 19th-century Prussian people People from Kostrzyn nad Odrą