Max (Maximilian) David (7 December 1859 in
Starý Jičín – ?) was a Moravian-German
engineer
Engineers, as practitioners of engineering, are professionals who Invention, invent, design, build, maintain and test machines, complex systems, structures, gadgets and materials. They aim to fulfill functional objectives and requirements while ...
.
David graduated from Technical College in
Brno
Brno ( , ; ) is a Statutory city (Czech Republic), city in the South Moravian Region of the Czech Republic. Located at the confluence of the Svitava (river), Svitava and Svratka (river), Svratka rivers, Brno has about 403,000 inhabitants, making ...
, which he attended twice – from 1877 to 1879 and then from 1880 to 1883. David initially worked as assistant lecturer at the Technical College in Brno, and then for a number of firms in
Czechoslovakia
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. He worked in
Bosnia and Herzegovina
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from 21 May 1890 in
Mostar
Mostar () is a city and the administrative centre of Herzegovina-Neretva Canton of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, an entity of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and the historical capital of Herzegovina.
Mostar is situated on the Neretva Riv ...
District and stayed there until 1907 when he moved to
Tuzla
Tuzla (, , ) is the List of cities in Bosnia and Herzegovina, third-largest city of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the administrative center of Tuzla Canton of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina. As of 2013, it has a population of 110,979 inha ...
.
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David's name (in the role of
designer
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) is associated with Mostar's
Bishop’s Ordinariate palace, District Court building (1891–1892), and an extension to the Girls' School of the Sisters of Mercy in Mostar, 1903.
See also
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Karel Pařík
Karel Pařík (4 July 1857 – 16 June 1942) was a Czech-born architect in the Austro-Hungarian empire. Pařík spent most of his life in Sarajevo where he designed over seventy major buildings, which are today classified among the most beauti ...
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Josip Vancaš
Josip Vancaš (22 March 1859 – 15 December 1932) was an Austro-Hungarian and Yugoslav architect who spent most of his career in the Bosnian city of Sarajevo, where he designed over two hundred buildings. He also designed important buildings in ...
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Architecture of Mostar
Centuries before the Ottoman Empire, Ottoman conquest of Bosnia, Mostar was a small hamlet situated at a strategic crossing of the Neretva river. Its hinterlands consisted of a broad agricultural plain on the west bank and steep terraces on the eas ...
References
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1859 births
Year of death missing
People from Nový Jičín District
Moravian-German people
Czech engineers
Czech designers
Bosnia and Herzegovina designers