Background
He was descended from a Germano-Baltic noble family and was a subject of the Russian Empire.
He was descended from a Germano-Baltic noble family and was a subject of the Russian Empire.
He studied at Darmstadt and moved to Saint St. Petersburg in 1831.
He worked in Alexander Brullov"s studio and was made a free painter in the Imperial Academy of Arts in 1832, an academician there in 1839 and a professor there in 1854. He designed public buildings and became court architect in 1858. Among his other well-known works is the German Church in Helsinki, Finland, a work attributed jointly to von Bosse and Swedish-born architect Carl Johan von Heideken, the work being completed in 1864.