Otto Pius Hippius (,
Saint Petersburg
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— ,
Saint Petersburg
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)
was a
Baltic German
Baltic Germans (german: Deutsch-Balten or , later ) were ethnic German inhabitants of the eastern shores of the Baltic Sea, in what today are Estonia and Latvia. Since their coerced resettlement in 1939, Baltic Germans have markedly declined ...
architect, particularly noted for several buildings in present-day
Estonia
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.
Life and works
Otto Hippius was born to the painter and lithographer,
Gustav Adolf Hippius, who taught his son art at a very early age. As a teenager, Otto Hippius studied in Germany and, in 1849, he graduated with honors from
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. From 1849 to 1851 he studied at the
Imperial Academy of Arts
The Russian Academy of Arts, informally known as the Saint Petersburg Academy of Arts, was an art academy in Saint Petersburg, founded in 1757 by the founder of the Imperial Moscow University Ivan Shuvalov under the name ''Academy of the T ...
in
Saint Petersburg
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. Upon graduation, he worked as an architect and teacher at several art schools. In 1864 Hippius became a member of the
Russian Academy of Sciences
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and in 1879 he became a professor.
Among his works are
Sagnitz Manor (now in Sangaste) in southern Estonia, built for Count
Friedrich Wilhelm Rembert von Berg
Friedrich Wilhelm Rembert Graf von Berg (german: Friedrich Wilhelm Rembert von Berg, russian: Фёдор Фёдорович Берг, tr. ; ) was a Baltic German nobleman, statesman, diplomat and general who served in the Imperial Russian Army. ...
between 1879 and 1883;
Münkenhof Manor (now in Muuga), built for the painter
Carl Timoleon von Neff
Carl Timoleon von Neff, also Timofey Andreyevich Neff (russian: Тимофей Андреевич Нефф, – ) was a Russian Imperial artist of Baltic German descent.
Biography
Carl Timoleon von Neff was born at a manor house in Neu-Isenho ...
between 1866 and 1873;
Charles' Church in
Reval
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(now Tallinn), constructed between 1862 and 1870; and Alexander Church (
et) in
Narva
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, constructed between 1881 and 1884.
See also
*
List of Baltic German architects
References
1826 births
1883 deaths
Architects from Saint Petersburg
People from Sankt-Peterburgsky Uyezd
Baltic-German people
Architects from the Russian Empire
19th-century Estonian people
Estonian architects
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