Abraham Salm (26 March 1857,

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- 13 June 1915, Amsterdam), was a Dutch architect.

Biography

He was born in Amsterdam as the son of the architect , whom he assisted.Abraham Salm
in the

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Together they visited the

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in Paris, and afterwards in 1880 he returned to Amsterdam where he became his father's partner. From 1898 to 1912 he was founding chairman of the Amsterdam architectural society ''Maatschappij tot Bevordering der Bouwkunst''.

References

Netherlands Architecture Institute: Abraham Salm (GBzn.)

External links

1857 births 1915 deaths Architects from Amsterdam 19th-century Dutch architects 20th-century Dutch architects {{Netherlands-architect-stub