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Adolphe Alphand

1817 - 1891

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Jean-Charles Adolphe Alphand (French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃ ʃaʁl adɔlf alfɑ̃]; 26 October 1817 – 6 December 1891) was a French engineer of the Corps of Bridges and Roads. As a close associate of Baron Haussmann and later as Director of Public Works at Paris City Hall from 1871, he was instrumental in the large-scale renovation of Paris in the second half of the 19th century. In 1889, Alphand was elevated to the rank of Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Adolphe Alphand has received more than 26,109 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Adolphe Alphand is the 197th most popular engineer (down from 194th in 2019), the 3,259th most popular biography from France (down from 3,055th in 2019) and the 34th most popular French Engineer.

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Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, Adolphe Alphand ranks 197 out of 323Before him are W. Ross Ashby, Seymour Cray, Evgeny Paton, Bassel al-Assad, Vasily Mishin, and Semyon Lavochkin. After him are Eugen Sänger, Jacques Antoine Charles Bresse, Elisa Leonida Zamfirescu, Mikhail Koshkin, Wilhelm Nusselt, and Pierre-François Bouchard.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1817, Adolphe Alphand ranks 47Before him are Georg Herwegh, Archduchess Maria Theresa of Austria-Este, Wilhelm Griesinger, Louis James Alfred Lefébure-Wély, Branwell Brontë, and Joseph Poelaert. After him are Wilhelm Georg Friedrich Roscher, Charles-Édouard Brown-Séquard, Braxton Bragg, Richard Dadd, Georgi Pulevski, and Francesco de Sanctis. Among people deceased in 1891, Adolphe Alphand ranks 68Before him are Konstantin Leontiev, Alexander Potebnja, Amalia Lindegren, James Russell Lowell, Louis Paulsen, and Antero de Quental. After him are Miklós Ybl, José María Iglesias, Theodor Aman, Karl Maximovich, George Washington Williams, and Ahmed Vefik Pasha.

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In France

Among people born in France, Adolphe Alphand ranks 3,259 out of 6,011Before him are Jean-Christophe Bouvet (1947), Jacques Villeret (1951), Alfred Grandidier (1836), Marie Anne de Vichy-Chamrond, marquise du Deffand (1697), Jane Dieulafoy (1851), and Jacques Ozanam (1640). After him are Marie-Denise Villers (1774), Jean Baptiste Gay, vicomte de Martignac (1778), Louis-Jean-Marie Daubenton (1716), Georges Urbain (1872), Edward Poynter (1836), and François-Joachim de Pierre de Bernis (1715).

Among ENGINEERS In France

Among engineers born in France, Adolphe Alphand ranks 34Before him are Alphonse Pénaud (1850), Pierre-Paul Riquet (1609), Pierre Charles L'Enfant (1754), Michel Chevalier (1806), Louis Dollo (1857), and Evgeny Paton (1870). After him are Jacques Antoine Charles Bresse (1822), Pierre-François Bouchard (1771), Charles Renard (1847), Benoît Fourneyron (1802), Marc René, marquis de Montalembert (1714), and Eugène Belgrand (1810).