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Carl Gustav Oehme (1817-1881)
Portrait of Anton Ferdinand Benda (1817-1893)
1856
Daguerreotype, 1/2 plate
Bassenge Photography Auctions
19th - 21st Century Photography, 3 June 2015, Lot: 4029
LL/59740
Anton Ferdinand Benda was from a Jewish Berlin family but later converted to Christianity. He was an engineer for the Magdeburg-Wittenbergschen Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft in the 1840s. In 1855 he took the position of Staatsbaudirektor in Lübeck where he also worked for a railyway company. He was an important railway bridge builder in the first half of the 19th century.
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