Victor Janowicz

Victor Janowicz (1733-1801) was a Franco-Polish engineer, famous for having laid out the plan for modern Koningstad. Janowicz was born in Poland but came to France in the 1750s. There he became an architect and engineer. In 1783 he was hired by the government to begin laying out a plan for Koningstad. He died in 1801, before his plans were finished.