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Bernard Vonnegut I, WAA, FAIA, (August 8, 1855 - August 7, 1908) was an American lecturer and architect active in late-nineteenth and early-twentieth-century Indiana.〔(archINFORM Bernard Vonnegut ) Accessed February 27, 2010〕 He was a co-founder of the locally renowned Indianapolis architectural firm of Vonnegut and Bohn. He was active in a range of residential, religious, institutional, civic, and commercial commissions. He is the namesake and grandfather of scientist Bernard Vonnegut, father of the architect Kurt Vonnegut Sr., and grandfather of author Kurt Vonnegut. ==Early life and education== Vonnegut was born on August 8, 1855 in Indianapolis, Indiana to Freethinker German-American parents Katarina Blank, a homemaker, and Clemens Vonnegut (1824–1906), a powerful nineteenth-century German-American businessmen in Indianapolis and founder of the Vonnegut Hardware Company.〔(Shaping the Circle Bernard Vonnegut )〕〔Carl Runyon, (Bernard Vonnegut, K’s father's father. )〕 Growing up in Indianapolis, he was described as the opposite of his father: artistic, extremely modest, retiring, unsociable, slightly introverted. "He had no intimates, and took but little part in social activities. He was never a happy...but was inclined to be reticent, shy, and somewhat contemptuous of his environment...and evidently unhappy in Indianapolis most of the time." He briefly worked for his father's firm but disliked it.〔 His father was on the Board of School Commissioners of the City of Indianapolis and he attended public schools with his brothers (Clemens Jr., Franklin, and George):〔Carl Runyon (Clemens Vonnegut Sr. )〕 The German-English School and Indianapolis High School (then at Pennsylvania and Michigan Streets). Throughout his childhood, his artistic talent was noticed. One family lore relates his early designed to work in stagecraft as a theatrical designer after becoming stagestruck, "but learned that almost no one could make a living at that--so he became an architect instead."〔 On the advice of his father's friend, Alexander Metzger, he "took the course in architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and later studied at the Polytechnic Institute of Hanover, Germany."〔〔 Returning for Germany, he resided in New York City during the late 1870s and early 1880s during the city's "Gilded Age." He worked as a draftsman for a number of years in the offices of famous architect George B. Post. There, according to family lore, he became highy productive and sociable. He felt his creativity and pursuit of arts was appreciated and respected in a way that it was not in Indiana. His happiness was only interrupted when his family ordered his to return to the Midwest and his family's social status and marry a good German girl.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Bernard Vonnegut I」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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