Julian Oktawian Zachariewicz-Lwigród


Julian Oktawian Zachariewicz-Lwigród, commonly referred to as Julian Zachariewicz, was a Polish architect and renovator, father of Alfred Zachariewicz. Zachariewicz was a graduate of the Royal Polytechnic Institute in Vienna, and a professor and rector of the Lemberg Polytechnic.

Life

He was born in Lemberg, Austrian Empire to a Polish family.
He graduated from the Vienna University of Technology. As a qualified engineer, he held until 1870 numerous positions in the Austrian State Railways. In 1871, he was proposed the post of director of the newly-established Faculty of Civil Engineering at the Lviv Technical Academy. As a consequence, he returned to Lviv and worked as professor at the academy and was appointed dean of the Faculty of Civil Engineering. Between 1877–1878 and 1881–1882 he served as rector of the Lviv Polytechnic. In 1877, he received Austrian nobility "Ritter" title with the predicate "von Lwigród". He designed the main building of the Lemberg Polytechnic as well as a separate building of the Faculty of Chemistry. The main building of the polytechnic, known as the "Mother of Polish Technical Universities", was designed in the then-fashionable eclectic Neo-Renaissance style and was preceded by a number of journeys across Germany and Austria made by Zachariewicz during which he became familiarized with all the newest innovations relating to the construction of this type of buildings. He also designed numerous public buildings and private residences including the Iași railway station, the Czernowitz Synagogue, the Galician Savings Bank in Lviv, Church of Franciscan Sisters in Lviv, Jan Styka's villa, and the Tyszkiewicz Villa in Vilnius. He also carried out the renovation of the Church of the Holy Family in Tarnów as well as controversial renovations of the Church of Our Lady of the Snow in Lviv and the Church of John the Baptist in Lviv. He is the author of the book Zabytki sztuki w Polsce published in 1895.
He died in Lemberg and was interred at the Lychakiv Cemetery.

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