Victor Luntz

Victor Luntz, (8 March 1840, Ybbs an der Donau - 12 October 1903, Vienna) was an Austrian architect and Professor.

In 1847, the family moved to Vienna where, from 1856 to 1860, he studied at the Polytechnic Institute then, from 1860 to 1864, at the Academy of Fine Arts.

His primary instructors there were August Sicard von Sicardsburg and Eduard van der Nüll.

In 1885 the College of Technology (the former Polytechnic Institute) named him to fill the chair of Medieval and Christian architecture, left vacant by the death of Heinrich von Ferstel, two years previously.

His notable students included Hubert Gangl [de], Rudolf Wiskoczil and Max Hegele, who designed the church at the Wiener Zentralfriedhof.