Gau, Franz Christian
A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture
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Gau, Franz Christian (1790–1853). German-born architect. He settled in Paris from 1810, travelled in Italy and Egypt, and published his
Antiquités de la Nubie (Antiquities of Nubia—1822–7) as well as important work on Pompeii (1829 and 1838). In 1839 he was appointed architect for the distinguished and scholarly
Gothic Revival Church of Ste-Clotilde, Paris (begun 1846), completed by
Ballu.
Bibliography
Gau (1822–7, 1829–38);
Middleton & and Watkin (1987)
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