Werner Lorenz (historian)

Werner Lorenz (born February 1, 1953, in Osnabrück) is a German structural engineer and a historian of construction technology.

After graduating from high school in the Gymnasium Carolinum (Osnabrück) in 1971, he studied civil engineering with a specialization in structural engineering at Technische Universität Berlin (TU Berlin) and from 1974 worked as a research assistant in the mechanics department there with Peter Gummert and the chair of structural analysis with Gebhard Hees.

In 1988 he taught as a guest lecturer for the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) at the renowned École des ponts ParisTech.

[3] The early buildings made of iron and steel have largely determined Werner Lorenz's work as a researcher and engineer.

[6] Since 2007 he has been organizing the lecture series Practices and Potentials of Construction History at the German Museum of Technology [7] together with Karl-Eugen Kurrer,