Friedrich Wilhelm von Erdmannsdorff

Friedrich Wilhelm von Erdmannsdorff
Born18 May 1736 (1736-05-18)
Died9 March 1800(1800-03-09) (aged 63)
NationalityGerman
Occupation(s)architect, architectural theoretician

Friedrich Wilhelm Freiherr von Erdmannsdorff (18 May 1736 – 9 March 1800) was a German architect and architectural theoretician, and one of the most significant representatives of early German Neoclassicism during the Age of Enlightenment. His work included Wörlitz Palace in the present-day Dessau-Wörlitz Garden Realm, one of the earliest Palladian buildings on the European continent. His most well-known student was Friedrich Gilly, the teacher of Karl Friedrich Schinkel.