Karol Podczaszyński
Architect
Died when: 69 years 164 days (833 months)Star Sign: Scorpio
Karol Podczaszynski (Lithuanian: Karolis Podcašinskis) (7 November 1790 – 19 April 1860) was a Polish-Lithuanian leading Vilnius architect, a representative of the neoclassical architecture and a professor of the Vilnius University, as well as one of the pioneers of industrial design.
He was born on 7 November 1790 in the village of Žyrmuny near Lida, in what is now the Grodno Region of Belarus.
He graduated from the prestigious Polish Krzemieniec Lyceum and the Vilnius University.Between 1814 and 1816 he continued his studies on architecture in St.
Petersburg, where he became the first Pole on the Imperial Academy of Arts.Between 1817 and 1819 Podczaszynski also travelled around European countries, visiting Königsberg, Danzig, Berlin, Paris, Naples, Venice and Vienna before returning to Cracow.
Upon his return to Vilnius in 1819, he was offered a chair of architecture, which he accepted.Among his most notable architectural works are the refurbishment of the interior of the Vilna University (1802-1804), including the Aula's interior, Evangelical Reformers' Church (1829-1835) and the neoclassical Jan Sniadecki's manor in Jašiunai (reconstructed between 1824 and 1828).
Yet another of Podczaszynski's major works was the neo-Palladian Tusculanum manor (in modern Žirmunai, Vilnius), completed in 1825.The entire Žirmunai microdistrict in Vilnius was named after his native village, a part of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania at the time of his birth.
As a noted architect, Podczaszynski also supervised a number of other projects, among them the reconstruction of the Palace of Governors in Vilnius, carried out by Vasily Stasov.
In modern times the palace serves as the seat of the President of Lithuania.Podczaszynski has also reconstructed the Orthodox Cathedral of the Theotokos into the Anatomicum of his alma mater (1822).
Finally, between 1836 and 1838 he designed the interior of three chapels of the St.Wladyslaw and Stanislaw Cathedral of Vilnius and reconstructed the Town Hall in Kaunas.
In 1839, Podczaszynski took the first known daguerreotype in present-day Lithuania.As a theoretician, he authored works on architecture and industrial design.
Podczaszynski died in Vilnius on 19 April 1860 at age 70 and was interred in Rasos Cemetery.His son, Pawel Boleslaw Podczaszynski also became a noted architect.
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