Alexander Wittek
Alexander Wittek was an Austrian-Hungarian architect and chess master.
As an architect, Wittek worked in Bosnia and Herzegovina during Austro-Hungarian Empire. His most well-known works in Sarajevo are the City Hall building called "Vijećnica" which later became the National Library and the Sebilj public fountain, both of which were built in the pseudo-Moorish style.
Wittek was also a chess master. He tied for 5–6th at Berlin 1881, and was in 9th place at Vienna 1882. In 1882 he was ranked 9th in the world.
Wittek died in a lunatic asylum in Graz in 1894, having been diagnosed with a "paralytic mental disorder" the previous year. One source says that he committed suicide but another cites tuberculosis.
