1. Georg Moller was an architect and a town planner who worked in the South of Germany, mostly in the region today known as Hessen.
11 Facts About Georg Moller
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In 1800, after finishing secondary school Georg Moller began studying architecture with Christian Ludwig Witte in Hannover.
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From 1843 to 1847 Georg Moller was commissioned by Grand-Duke Ludwig II.
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The other buildings Georg Moller designed were damaged beyond repair or were reconstructed in a more simple design.
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Georg Moller was responsible for the reconstruction of the castles in Bad Homburg and Meisenheim, the latter called Wolfgangsbau, for the Landgrave of Hesse-Homburg.
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Georg Moller worked for prince Klemens von Metternich, redesigning his castle Schloss Johannisberg.
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Georg Moller is considered, along with Karl Friedrich Schinkel and Leo von Klenze, to be one of the most important German architects working in the Greek Revival and Romanticist styles.
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Georg Moller was at least partly responsible for preserving the Carolingian Torhalle in Lorsch, which today is part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site.
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Georg Moller was one of the first to take a stylistic approach to dating of buildings rather than accepting all recorded dates.
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Georg Moller wrote Beitrage zu der Lehre von den Konstruktionen.
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Georg Moller played an important role for the completion of Cologne Cathedral.