page_title: Frigyes Schulek
section_title: Education
hierarchical_section_title: Frigyes Schulek / Life / Education
caption_attribution_description: Magyar: A jáki templom részlete. Saját készítésű kép
context_page_description: Frigyes Schulek was a Hungarian architect, a professor at József Technical University and a member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
context_section_description: Schulek was born in Pest and began school in Buda. His mother was Auguszta Zsigmondy. His father Ágost Schulek held a position in the Finance Ministry of Lajos Kossuth. The Schulek family accompanied Kossuth's government on its flight to Debrecen during the Hungarian Revolution of 1848, then returned to the capital. After the suppression of the struggle for independence, Ágost Schulek was declared persona non grata, and the family returned to Debrecen.
  Graduating in 1857, Frigyes Schulek enrolled in the Buda Polytechnic (József Technical University), from which he received his diploma in 1861. Thereafter he attended the Academy of Fine Arts (Akademie der bildenden Künste) in Vienna which he finished in 1867.
  He became a member of the "Wiener Bauhütte" where he studied under Friedrich von Schmidt, who profoundly influenced his later interest in Middle Ages architecture.
  In 1866 he briefly worked on the restoration of the Regensburg Cathedral, subsequently visiting France and Italy.
  From 1871 he taught architectural drawing at the Budapest Art School, where, as a colleague of Imre Steindl, he helped design Pest's City Hall. In 1872 he was appointed architect of the newly founded Provisional Monuments Commission (Műemlékek Országos Bizottság), later known as the National Monuments Commission, the first such independent Hungarian organization. Here he coordinated the reconstruction and restoration of mediæval castles and churches.
  Ancestors of Frigyes Schulek: hu: Schulek család (felvidéki)
caption: Frigyes Schulek was instrumental in the restoration of the Jáki Church
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