Karl Eduard Aeschlimann, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Karl Eduard Aeschlimann

Swiss architect (1808-1893)

Date of Birth: 17-Feb-1808

Place of Birth: Burgdorf, canton of Bern, Switzerland

Date of Death: 04-Apr-1893

Profession: architect

Nationality: Switzerland

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Karl Eduard Aeschlimann (17 February 1808 in Burgdorf; † 4.
April 1893 in Yalta) was a Swiss architect.
He was a court architect of the Russian royal family. Aeschlimann was a son of the potter Johann Heinrich Aeschlimann and his wife Marie.
He attended the Burgerschulen in Burgdorf and the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Paris and worked as assistant to architects in the city of Bern.
In 1828 he traveled to the Black Sea and ended up in Crimea.
He was a traveling companion of the Spanish Count Orlando de la Blanca.
Between about 1830 to 1860 he worked as court architect of the Russian royal family on the south coast of Crimea, especially in the district of Greater Yalta.
For this area, he created a general plan and designed a number of private and public buildings, including the first hotel of Yalta.
Aeshlimann was involved in construction of the castle in Alupka for the Vorontsov family. Aeschlimann married Elisa Maurer, a daughter of Johann Jakob Maurer-Fischer of Schaffhausen, in Simferopol in 1836 and was knighted in 1850.