About Carl Ludvig Engel
Carl Ludvig Engel or Johann Carl Ludwig Engel was a German architect whose most noted work can be found in Helsinki, which he helped rebuild. His works include most of the buildings around the capital's monumental centre, the Senate Square and the buildings surrounding it. The buildings are Helsinki Cathedral, The Senate, the Helsinki City Hall, and the library and the main building of Helsinki University. He designed the first theater of Helsinki, Engels Teater, in 1827, though this was a rather modest building. In 1819–1820, when Engel's first creations were nearing completion, his status as a kind of head architect of the Grand Duchy was established when he received more and more building assignments, both private and public, in other parts of Finland.
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