Helmut Knocke (born 1953) is a

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architecture historian and author.

Life

Hemut Knocke studied

architecture Architecture is the art and technique of designing and building, as distinguished from the skills associated with construction. It is both the process and the product of sketching, conceiving, planning, designing, and constructing building ...

, with a special focus on the history of building, at the

Leibniz University Hannover Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz University Hannover (german: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Universität), also known as the University of Hannover, is a public research university located in Hanover, Germany. Founded on 2 May 1831 as Higher Vocational Sc ...

(LUH) in his home city,

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, graduating in 1983. He has worked for the Cultural heritage inventarisation department where the focus of his work was on the built and documentary legacies of the architects

Georg Ludwig Friedrich Laves Georg Ludwig Friedrich Laves (17 December 1788 – 30 April 1864) was a German architect, civil engineer and urban planner. Born in Uslar, Lower Saxony, he lived and worked primarily in the city of Hanover and also died there. He was appointed ...

(1788–1864) and

Rudolf Hillebrecht Rudolf Hillebrecht (26 February 1910 – 6 March 1999) was a German architect and city planner. In 1948, against an impressive list of rival candidates, he succeeded in obtaining appointment as city planning officer for his home city of Hannov ...

(1910–1999). He also involved himself in research projects at the Institute for Arts and Buildings History (german: Institut für Bau- und Kunstgeschichte) at LUH. Knocke is co-author, together with Hugo Thielen, of the (), of which an expanded and updated fourth edition appeared in 2007, and which has become a standard work on various of its themes. He has contributed many of the entries in the Hannover Biographical lexicon (), and to the Hannover City Lexicon ().

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Knocke, Helmut Architectural historians Architects from Hanover 1953 births Living people