Architect born on 31 May 1893 in Zgierz. The son of the pastor of the local Evangelical parish Ernst Wilhelm Bursche and Maria Matilda née Harmel. He graduated from gymnasium in Warsaw in 1913. He then studied architecture at the Imperial Academy of Fine Arts in St Petersburg, from which he graduated in 1918. While studying in Russia, he served an apprenticeship in the studio of the architect Marian Lalewicz. In 1922, he graduated from the Faculty of Architecture at the Warsaw University of Technology. Lecturer at the St. Noakowski Female School of Architecture. Member of the Board of the Association of Polish Architects. Arrested by the Gestapo on 16 October 1939. In May 1940, he was sent to the Sachsenhausen concentration camp, and then to Mauthausen-Gusen. After the Second World War, he worked at the Department of Historic Architecture of the Bureau of Reconstruction of the Capital and as the chief designer at the Monuments Conservation Workshop. He died in 1965 of tuberculosis. Twice married, he had three children. Some of his more important projects in Warsaw are: the building of the Polish Teachers' Union at Wybrzeze Kościuszkowskie, the reconstruction of the Barssa side of the Old Town Square, the reconstruction of the Holy Trinity Church and co-authoring the post-war reconstruction of the interiors of the Palace of the Council of Ministers.