Gottfried Semper
German architect (1803-1879)
see Vienna and Dresden, Court Theatre and Opera House; III. pp. 51, 65, 74.
Gottfried Semper was a German architect, art critic and professor who designed and built the Semper Opera House in Dresden between 1838 and 1841. His unrealised design for an opera house in Munich was, without permission, adapted by Wagner for the Bayreuth Festspielhaus.