Jacob Ephraim Polzin (1778 – 18 November 1851) was a

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Neoclassical architect active in

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, Germany.

Life

Son of a master carpenter, Polzin was born in

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in 1778. He trained in

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and quickly found work for three years helping to construct the new

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which

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had designed. In 1811 he moved to

where he married the daughter of the local master carpenter in 1814. Polzin had worked on re-designing the town's

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notwithstanding the French occupation. He also worked on houses in the

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and what was then the river island of

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. The houses on the Teerhof were largely destroyed by bombing during the second world war. Polzin's work at that time was said to be influenced by

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. Polzin worked on the creation of the new street and buildings which were created as the town walls were abandoned. The new street was named Am Wall and several of Polzin's designs are still standing. In 1832 designed a church in Bremen's northern suburb of

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and in 1838 be designed the museum on the

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. Polzin and his wife had two sons, Christian and Friedrich, who became architects.In the ''Bremische Biographie des 19. Jahrhunderts'' they are also mentioned as Christoph and Ferdinand, see ''Bremische Biographie des 19. Jahrhunderts''. Winter, Bremen 1912, Reprint: Schünemann Verlag, Bremen 1976, p. 390 Their father died in his adopted town of

in 1851.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Polzin, Jacob Ephraim 1778 births 1851 deaths Architects from Königsberg 19th-century German architects Architects from Bremen (city) Emigrants from the Kingdom of Prussia