David Gilly

As such, Gilly was from 1792 to 1801 in charge of the building of the Bromberger Canal and the reconstruction and extension of the harbour concern of Danzig and Elbing.

The most influential late Classicist architect of the time was Carl Gotthard Langhans, director of the royal building commission in Berlin.

Gilly conceived and erected an office building in Braunschweig for the publisher Friedrich Vieweg in 1801, and almost at the same time he rebuilt Schloss Steinhöfel for the Hofmarschall Valentin von Massow.

When on 3 August 1800 his son Friedrich died, David Gilly lost his creative impulse, even finding no pleasure in a short study trip to Paris in 1803/04.

His wife Friederike died in 1804 and after the obligatory year of mourning, Gilly married her sister, Juliane Ziegenspeck.