HITTORFF, JACQUES IGNACE (1792-1867), French architect and archaeologist, was born at Cologne on Aug. 2o, 1792, and died in Paris on March 25, 1867. After apprenticeship to a mason in Cologne, he went in 1810 to Paris to study at the Acad emy of Fine Arts under Belanger, the Government architect, whom Hittorff succeeded in his post in 1818. Thereafter he designed many important buildings, both public and private, in Paris and the south of France. His principal work is the basilica of St. Vincent de Paul (183o-44). His books are: Architecture antique de la Sicile (1826-3o and 1866-67) ; Architecture Moderne de la Sicile (1826-35) ; Architecture polychrome chez les grecs (1830) ; Restitution du temple d'Empedocle d Selinunte (1851) .
See T. L. Donaldson, "J. I. Hittorff," R.I.B.A. Journal (London, April, 1867) .