Gottfried Semper (; November 29, 1803 – May 15, 1879) was a German architect,
art critic, and professor of architecture, who designed and built the
Semper Opera House in
Dresden between 1838 and 1841. In 1849 he took part in the
May Uprising in Dresden and was put on the government's wanted list. Semper fled first to
Zürich and later to London. Later he returned to Germany after the 1862 amnesty granted to the revolutionaries.