Alexander Wittek

Alexander Wittek
Born(1852-10-12)12 October 1852
Sisak, Austrian Empire
Died5 November 1894(1894-11-05) (aged 41)
Graz, Austro-Hungarian Monarchy
OccupationArchitect

Alexander Wittek (12 October 1852, Sisak – 11 May 1894, Graz) was an Austrian-Hungarian architect and chess master.

Wittek died in a lunatic asylum in Graz in 1894, having been diagnosed with a "paralytic mental disorder" the previous year. Contradictory sources attribute his death to either suicide or tuberculosis.

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