Franz Christian Gau (1790-1853)

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Name (English)
Franz Christian Gau
Short name
Franz Christian Gau
Year of birth
1790
Year of death
1853
Short Description
"Franz Christian Gau (b. Cologne, 15 June 1790; d. Paris, January, 1854) was a German architect and archaeologist.

In 1809 he entered the Académie des Beaux-Arts, Paris, and in 1815 visited Italy and Sicily. In 1817 he went to Nubia, and while there he made drawings and measurements of all the more important monuments of that country, his ambition being to produce a work which should supplement the great work of the French expedition in Egypt. The result of his labours appeared in a folio volume (Stuttgart and Paris, 1822), entitled Antiquitiés de la Nubie ou monuments inédits des bords du Nil, situés entre la premiére et la seconde cataracte, dessinés et mesurés in 1819. It consists of sixty-eight plates, of plans, sections, and views, and was received as an authority. His next publication was the completion of Francois Mazois´s work on the ruins of Pompeii." - (en.wikipedia.org 05.11.2019)
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