Georg Kaspar Nagler

Georg Kaspar Nagler, who came from a poor background studied from 1815 at the Wilhelmsgymnasium, Munich (today).

[1] From 1823 he studied philology and natural sciences at the local lyceum, finally receiving in 1829 a doctorate to become Dr. phil.

He became an employee of the Bayerische National-Zeitung, published by Joseph Heinrich Wolf.

For this he received gold medals for art and science from Duke Max in Bayern and Friedrich Wilhelm IV of Prussia.

From 1836 he lectured on the history of architecture at the Royal School of Construction [de].