August Sicard von Sicardsburg, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

August Sicard von Sicardsburg

austrian architect

Date of Birth: 06-Dec-1813

Place of Birth: Buda, Budapest, Hungary

Date of Death: 11-Jun-1868

Profession: architect, professor

Nationality: Austria

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

August Sicard von Sicardsburg (6 December 1813 – 11 June 1868) was an Austrian architect.
He is best remembered as the co-architect of the Vienna State Opera, together with Eduard van der Nüll. Sicardsburg was born in Buda.
He studied architecture at the Vienna University of Technology under Peter von Nobile, and together with van der Nüll.
In 1843 he became professor at the Vienna Academy. Karl Freiherr von Hasenauer was one of his students. Sicardsburg died in 1868 in Weidling, Austria of tuberculosis, 6 weeks after his partner Eduard van der Nüll committed suicide; neither saw the opening of the Vienna State Opera in 1869.