Carl Ferdinand Langhans

Carl Ferdinand Langhans (14 January 1782 – 22 November 1869) was a Prussian architect whose specialty was designing theaters.

Langhans' designs included the reconstruction of the Berlin State Opera after a fire and the New Theatre in Leipzig (destroyed by Allied bombing in World War II).

Other projects included theaters in Breslau and Liegnitz, and the Berlin residence (the Old Palace) of William I, German Emperor.

His grave is preserved in the Protestant Friedhof III der Jerusalems- und Neuen Kirchengemeinde (Cemetery No.

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Church of St. Joseph the Protector in Wrocław , Langhans' birthplace, built by him on the site of a medieval church. It was known as the Church of St. Ursula and the Eleven Thousand Virgins until 1946.