Jan Letzel

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Czech architect architect building building ruin human

Jan Letzel was a Czech architect best known for designing Hiroshima’s Prefectural Industrial Promotion Hall, whose ruins are preserved as the Genbaku Dome after the atomic bombing.

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Czech architect → architect → building → building ruin → human →
activeYears	1900s → 1910s →
architect	Jan Letzel →
causeOfDeath	illness →
citizenship	Czechoslovakia →
country	Japan → Japan →
countryOfBirth	Austria-Hungary →
countryOfCitizenship	Czech lands →
countryOfDeath	Czechoslovakia →
dateOfBirth	1880-04-09 →
dateOfDeath	1925-12-26 →
designed	Hiroshima Prefectural Industrial Promotion Hall →
educatedAt	Czech Technical University in Prague →
era	early 20th century →
ethnicGroup	Czech →
familyName	Letzel →
fieldOfWork	architecture →
gender	male →
givenName	Jan →
hasPart	ruins of Hiroshima Prefectural Industrial Promotion Hall →
heritageDesignation	UNESCO World Heritage Site →
knownFor	designing Hiroshima’s Prefectural Industrial Promotion Hall → having his building preserved as the Genbaku Dome after the atomic bombing of Hiroshima →
location	Hiroshima → Hiroshima →
name	Jan Letzel →
nationality	Czech →
nativeLanguage	Czech →
notableWork	Genbaku Dome → Hiroshima Prefectural Industrial Promotion Hall →
occupation	architect →
partOf	Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park →
placeOfBirth	Náchod →
placeOfDeath	Prague →
style	Western-style architecture in Japan → modern architecture →
workedIn	Hiroshima → Japan → Tokyo → Yokohama →

Referenced by (3)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Genbaku Dome → Hiroshima Prefectural Industrial Promotion Hall →	architect
Jan Letzel →	name