Maximilian Emil Hehl (born September 17, 1861, in
Kassel
Kassel (; in Germany, spelled Cassel until 1926) is a city on the Fulda River in northern Hesse, Germany. It is the administrative seat of the Regierungsbezirk Kassel and the district of the same name and had 201,048 inhabitants in December 2020 ...
– August 27, 1916 in
São Paulo) was a German
engineer and
architect active in
Brazil.
Son of Johannes Hehl, director of the Kassel Polytechnic College, and Carolin Wolff Hehl, he studied engineering in the
Leibniz University Hannover
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz University Hannover (german: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Universität), also known as the University of Hannover, is a public research university located in Hanover, Germany. Founded on 2 May 1831 as Higher Vocational Sc ...
. In 1888, he migrated to Brazil to work on railway construction in the state of
Minas Gerais. He moved later to São Paulo where, in 1898, he became professor at the
University of São Paulo Polytechnic School.
One of his early works was the
Cathedral of St Peter in Bautzen, Germany.
His major work was the project for the new
São Paulo Cathedral building, conceived in
Neo-Gothic style
Gothic Revival (also referred to as Victorian Gothic, neo-Gothic, or Gothick) is an architectural movement that began in the late 1740s in England. The movement gained momentum and expanded in the first half of the 19th century, as increasingly ...
. He died before the conclusion. He also designed the Cathedral of
Santos as well as the Consolação Church in
São Paulo, both in Neo-Gothic style.
References
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1861 births
1916 deaths
19th-century German architects
Engineers from Kassel
Brazilian architects
Brazilian engineers
German emigrants to Brazil
University of São Paulo faculty
20th-century German architects
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