Peter Speeth, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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German architect (1772-1831)
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Place of Birth: Mannheim, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
About Peter Speeth
- Peter Speeth (29 November 1772 – 1831) was a German architect. Speeth was born in Mannheim and worked in Frankfurt from 1788–1794 under Nicolas de Pigage (1723-1796), in Heidelberg from 1797, and from 1804 at Amorbach for the Prince of Leiningen.
- In 1807 he moved to Würzburg in the service of Ferdinand III, Grand Duke of Tuscany, where he designed the Women's Pententiary (1809–1810), an early and striking Neo-Renaissance design, as well as the Zeller Torhaus guard house (1814) which resembles Claude-Nicolas Ledoux's barrières for Paris, and the Gerichtsdienerhaus (House of the Court Usher, 1811–13).
- His employment for the Grand Duke ended in 1815, and in 1826 he moved to Russia.
- He died in Odessa in 1831.
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