Stiassny Wilhelm (1842-1910)

(Presbourg (Slovakia) 1842-Bad Ischl (Austria) 1910)
Austrian architect of Jewish origin, Stiassny studies at the Technical University of Vienna, then at the Academy of Fine Arts where he graduates in 1867. He settles in Vienna where he lives and works until his death. He is also the author of numerous synagogues built in neo-Moorish style among which are the synagogue of Gablonz (1891-1892) and the synagogue of Leopoldsgasse both destroyed in 1938 during the Night of Broken Glass as well as the synagogue of Stanisławów in Galicia (1894-1899) and the Jubilee Synagogue of Prague (1904-1906).