Ferenc Pfaff

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Ferenc Pfaff (Mohács, November 19, 1851 – Budapest, August 21, 1913) was a famous Hungarian architect and academic.

Pecs train station

[edit] Career

Pfaff received his degree in 1880 after studying under Imre Steindl at the Jozsef Nador Technical University in Budapest. Early in his career, he designed a number of smaller buildings, among which is the Roman Catholic church at Svabhegy.

He is best known, however for his career as an architect with the Hungarian Railways. Joining in 1887, he later became director of building works right across the Hungarian lands within the Austro-Hungarian Empire. In the following two decades he would design some 20 large, and numerous smaller railway stations, mainly in the Renaissance eclectic style. These buildings were often modest but notable for their fine sense of proportion and scale. He also redesigned a number of existing stations, notably in Gyor, Kassa and Miskolc.