About Johann Moritz Richter
Lived 1620 – 1667 (aged 46–47). Johann Moritz Richter was a German architect and engineer.
Johann Moritz Richter (1620–1667) was a German architect and engraver.
Richter was born in Weimar. In the position of "fürstlich-sächsischer Landbaumeister" (court architect), he designed the oldest extant bridge in Weimar, the Sternbrücke (de), built from 1651 to 1654 crossing the Ilm river. It is part of the Park an der Ilm. He designed the Schloss in Weimar which was destroyed by fire in 1774.
In: Ulrich Thieme, Felix Becker u. a.: Allgemeines Lexikon der Bildenden Künstler von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart. Band 28, E. A. Seemann, Leipzig 1934, S. 295f.
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German architect
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Johann Moritz Richter was born in 1620 in Weimar.
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Johann Moritz Richter died in 1667 in Jena.
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Johann Moritz Richter was an architect and engineer.
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Johann Moritz Richter was German.
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