Background
Rawert was born in Christiania, where he became a cadet from the Military and Mathematical School in 1783.
Rawert was born in Christiania, where he became a cadet from the Military and Mathematical School in 1783.
In 1775, he enrolled with the engineering troops in Copenhagen and moved to Denmark where he studied architecture under Caspar Frederik Harsdorff at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts between 1776 and 1778, winning both the small and large silver medals.
He created the masterplan for the rebuilding of Copenhagen after the Great Fire of 1795 in his capacity of city architect and was also involved in many building projects, mostly of townhouses, often collaborating with Andreas Hallander. He was a Second Lieutenant with the engineering troops from 1778 to 1786 and from 1783 a titular professor In 1786, he returned to Christiania to serve as a teacher in mathematics at the Military and Mathematical School.
In 1790, he returned to Copenhagen to assume a position as implementing architect for the City (Stadskonduktør).
He was a key figure in the rebuilding of Copenhagen after the Great Fire of 1795 and again after the British bombardment of Copenhagen in 1807.