Albert Geutebrück
Illustration — Photo of Albert Geutebrück (1863) Albert Geutebrück (6 January 1801 in Gotha – 13 March 1868 in Graz, Steiermark) was a German classicist architect and the director of the School of Building and Construction at the University of Leipzig. He is most known for the building, the Augusteum. Geutebrück constructed the Augusteum building on the Augustusplatz in Leipzig, Germany, which was built in 1836 on the site of the University of Leipzig and served as its main building.
Albert Geutebrück

100 Jahre Staatsbauschule für Hoch- und Tiefbau Leipzig. 1838–1938. Leipzig 1938 (Digitalisat). · Public domain
- Born
- 1801 · Gotha.
- Died
- 1868 · Graz.
- Nationality
- Germany
- Occupation
- architect
- Honours
- Order of the Saxe-Ernestine
- Languages
- German
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Illustration — Photo of Albert Geutebrück (1863) Albert Geutebrück (6 January 1801 in Gotha – 13 March 1868 in Graz, Steiermark) was a German classicist architect and the director of the School of Building and Construction at the University of Leipzig. He is most known for the building, the Augusteum. Geutebrück constructed the Augusteum building on the Augustusplatz in Leipzig, Germany, which was built in 1836 on the site of the University of Leipzig and served as its main building.
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Geutebrück was a member of the Leipzig Association of Art Friends and an honorary member of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA).
Albert Geutebrück is recorded as having received Order of the Saxe-Ernestine.

Albert Geutebrück, 1863
Birgit Hartung: Albert Geutebrück. Baumeister des Klassizismus in Leipzig. Lehmstedt Verlag, Leipzig 2003, ISBN 3-937146-05-9, pg. 16.
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Albert Geutebrück born at Gotha.
1868
Albert Geutebrück died at Graz.
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- 1.Birgit Hartung: Albert Geutebrück. Baumeister des Klassizismus in Leipzig. Lehmstedt-Verlag, Leipzig 2003, ISBN 3-937146-05-9, S. 90 f.
- 2.Eckhart Schleinitz und Michael Schleinitz (Hrsg.), Woldemar Hermann: Tagebuch meines Wirkungskreises in der Architektur. Hermanns Bautagebuch von 1826 bis 1847. Verlag Notschriften, Radebeul 2006, ISBN 978-3-933753-88-5, S. 46–50.
- 3.Bernd Haube: In memoriam Albert Geutebrück (1801–1868). In: Altenburger Geschichts- und Hauskalender, 2002, S. 168
- 4.Birgit Hartung: Albert Geutebrück. Baumeister des Klassizismus in Leipzig. Lehmstedt-Verlag, Leipzig 2003, ISBN 3-937146-05-9, S. 123
- 5.Gina Klank, Gernot Griebsch: Lexikon Leipziger Straßennamen. Hrsg. vom Stadtarchiv Leipzig, Verlag im Wissenschaftszentrum Leipzig, Leipzig 1995, ISBN 3-930433-09-5, S. 82 f.
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