Leo Schmidt (born ''Leopold Rupert Schmidt'', in 1953) is a German curator of monuments and a historian of art and architecture. He is professor at the department of architectural conservation at the Brandenburg University of Technology.

Early life and education

Schmidt studied art history, classical archeology and history at the

University of Freiburg The University of Freiburg (colloquially german: Uni Freiburg), officially the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg (german: Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg), is a public university, public research university located in Freiburg im Breisg ...

and at the

Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich The Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (simply University of Munich or LMU; german: Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München) is a public research university in Munich, Germany. It is Germany's sixth-oldest university in continuous operatio ...

. In 1980 he gained his Doctor of Philosophie at the University of Freiburg with a thesis on the architecture of

Holkham Hall Holkham Hall ( or ) is an 18th-century English country house, country house near the village of Holkham, Norfolk, England, constructed in the Neo-Palladian style for the Thomas Coke, 1st Earl of Leicester (fifth creation), 1st Earl of Leicester ...

Career

From 1980 until 1995 Schmidt worked as a senior investigator in the State Department for the Care of Historic Buildings in Baden-Wuerttemberg; last as the head of department of monument inventory in Baden. Since 1995 he is full Professor holding the chair for architectural conservation at Brandenburg University of Technology. Schmidt's research interests include the theory and practice of heritage preservation and its history, the history of city development and historic town centres, and architecture and urban planning during the reign of the Wilhelmine Empire. He has studied building archeology and heritage preservation of English Country houses of the 18th century. He has compiled a history of the building of the

Berlin Wall The Berlin Wall (german: Berliner Mauer, ) was a guarded concrete barrier that encircled West Berlin from 1961 to 1989, separating it from East Berlin and East Germany (GDR). Construction of the Berlin Wall was commenced by the government ...

and the army research center Peenemünde.

Dankwart Guratzsch Dankwart Guratzsch (born 14 June 1939) is a German journalist. He has made a name for himself above all as an architecture critic. Life Guratzsch was born in Dresden in 1939, the son of the writer and teacher Curt Guratzsch (1891-1965). In 1957 ...

, (March 23, 2011) Die Raketen-Basis der Nazis soll geflutet werden, Welt-online.de He has published a number of books and articles on this subject. Since 2006 he is a fellow of the

Society of Antiquaries of London A society is a group of individuals involved in persistent social interaction, or a large social group sharing the same spatial or social territory, typically subject to the same political authority and dominant cultural expectations. Societ ...

Selected publications

* Leo Schmidt,

Peter Burman Peter Burman (Peter Ashley Thomas Insull Burman, MBE FSA, born Solihull,John Barcroft and Martin Butler Booth, ''A Register of Admissions to King's College Cambridge 1945–1982'' (Cambridge, 1989) page 261. 15 September 1944) is a British ar ...

, Christian Keller: ''Looking Forwards: The Country House in Contemporary Research and Conservation, Proceedings of the Conference in York in 1999''. Cottbus 2001 * Polly Feversham, Leo Schmidt: ''Die Berliner Mauer Heute - Denkmalwert und Umgang. The Berlin Wall Today - Cultural Significance and Conservation Issues'', Berlin 1999; * Axel Klausmeier, Leo Schmidt: ''Wall Remnants - Wall Traces'', Bad Münstereifel 2004; * Leo Schmidt, Henriette von Preuschen (Hrsg.): ''On Both Sides of the Wall. Preservation of Monuments and Sites of the Cold War Era - Auf beiden Seiten der Mauer. Denkmalpflege an Objekten des Kalten Krieges'', Bad Münstereifel 2005; * Leo Schmidt, Christian Keller, Polly Feversham: ''Holkham'', München-Berlin-London-New York 2005; * Countess of Hopetoun, Polly Feversham and Leo Schmidt (editors), ''Hopetoun, Scotland's Finest Stately Home'' (Hirmer Verlag GmbH, Munich, 2020) .

External links

Chair of architectural conservation at BTU Cottbus

Biografie by ICOMOS Australia

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