!!!Stiassny, Wilhelm

Stiassny, Wilhelm, b. Bratislava, Slovakia (then Pressburg), Oct. 
15, 1842, d. Bad Ischl (Upper Austria), June 16, 1910, architect. 
One of the busiest and most experienced architects in Vienna; 
1867-1877 Director of the industrial association of Lower Austria, 
active member of the Jewish community in Vienna, had many Jewish 
clients (e.g. Rothschild); co-founder and long term president of the 
architectural association "Wiener Bauhuette". Built numerous 
residential homes (e.g. Weihburggasse 30, in the 1st district of 
Vienna, 1872), hospitals, schools (e.g. "Polnische Schule" in Vienna, 
1893, destroyed 1938), factories, monuments, synagogues as well as the 
Jewish ceremonial hall of Vienna´s main cemetery 
´Zentralfriedhof´ (1877-1879).


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