August Schoenborn

August Gottlieb Schoenborn (October 20, 1827 – January 24, 1902) was a German American architect who helped design the United States Capitol dome.

Life and career Grave of August Schoenborn at Prospect Hill Cemetery in Washington, D.C. He was born in October 1827 in the town of Suhl, Germany, a major arms manufacturing center. He attended the city's public schools, and after graduation worked as a mechanic for three years. Schoenborn enrolled at the Technical Institute and School of Art (Kunst- und Bauhandwerksschule zu Erfurt) in 1843 in Erfurt, where he studied architecture. He emigrated to the United States in 1849 and settled in Wisconsin. Two years later, he moved to Washington, D.C. President Millard Fillmore was also highly impressed with Schoenborn's work, and often visited him in the architectural offices at the Capitol.

He died at his home in Washington, D.C., on January 24, 1902, at the age of 74. A member of Concordia Lutheran Church, he was interred at Prospect Hill Cemetery in Washington, D.C.