Essenwein, August Ottmar
Essenwein, August Ottmar (1831–92). German architect and historian. He enlarged the Germanisches Nationalmuseum (German National Museum), Nuremberg (1860s), and restored churches in Nuremberg, Cologne, Bonn, and elsewhere. He acquired a reputation as an expert on Romanesque architecture, and published extensively. Among his works were Die mittelalterlichen Kunstdenkmäler der Stadt Krakau (Medieval Historic Buildings in Kraków—1869) and Nord-Deutschlands Backsteinbau im Mittelalter (North-German Brick Architecture of the Middle Ages—1877).
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