Helmut Knocke

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Helmut Knocke (born 1953) is a German architecture historian and author.

Life

Hemut Knocke studied architecture, with a special focus on the history of building, at the Leibniz University Hannover (LUH) in his home city, Hannover, graduating in 1983. He has worked for the Cultural heritage inventarisation department where the focus of his work was on the built and documentary legacies of the architects Georg Ludwig Friedrich Laves (1788–1864) and Rudolf Hillebrecht (1910–1999). He also involved himself in research projects at the Institute for Arts and Buildings History (German : Institut für Bau- und Kunstgeschichte) at LUH. [1]

Knocke is co-author, together with Hugo Thielen, of the (Hannover Kunst- und Kultur-Lexikon), of which an expanded and updated fourth edition appeared in 2007, [2] and which has become a standard work on various of its themes. He has contributed many of the entries in the Hannover Biographical lexicon (Hannoversches biographisches Lexikon), [1] and to the Hannover City Lexicon (Stadtlexikon Hannover). [3]

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References

  1. 1 2 Böttcher, Dirk; et al. (2002). Hannoversches biographisches Lexikon. Von den Anfängen bis in die Gegenwart [Hannover Biographical lexicon. From the beginnings into the present] (in German). Hannover: Schlütersche. p. 9. ISBN   9783877067062. OCLC   231977507 . Retrieved 29 August 2022.
  2. Knocke, Helmut; Thielen, Hugo (2007). Böttcher, Dirk; Mlynek, Klaus (eds.). Hannover: Kunst- und Kultur-Lexikon [Hannover Artistic and Cultural Lexicon] (in German) (4th ed.). Springe: zu Klampen. ISBN   978-3-934920-53-8. OCLC   254024316 . Retrieved 29 August 2022.
  3. Mlynek, Klaus; Röhrbein, Waldemar R., eds. (2009). Stadtlexikon Hannover: Von den Anfängen bis in die Gegenwart[Hannover City Lexicon. From the beginnings into the present] (in German). With Dirk Böttcher and Hugo Thielen. Hannover: Schlütersche. ISBN   978-3-89993-662-9. OCLC   458691668.