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Albert Kahn

1869 - 1942

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Albert Kahn (March 21, 1869 – December 8, 1942) was an American architect noted for his collaborations with his brother Julius Kahn in designing industrial plant complexes such as the Ford River Rouge automobile complex. Based in Detroit, he also designed skyscrapers, office buildings, and mansions in the city and suburbs, as well as many buildings at University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Albert Kahn has received more than 15,638 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Albert Kahn is the 307th most popular architect (up from 328th in 2019), the 3,422nd most popular biography from Germany (up from 3,475th in 2019) and the 35th most popular German Architect.

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Among ARCHITECTS

Among architects, Albert Kahn ranks 307 out of 518. Before him are Carlo Rossi, Moshe Safdie, Paul Wallot, Giovanni da Udine, Juan Bautista de Toledo, and William Chambers. After him are Charles Jencks, Dominikus Zimmermann, Joseph Poelaert, Thom Mayne, Helmut Jahn, and Augustin Ehrensvärd.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1869, Albert Kahn ranks 92. Before him are Ludwig von Reuter, Aleš Hrdlička, Jalil Mammadguluzadeh, Ben Turpin, Archduchess Karoline Marie of Austria, and Harvey Cushing. After him are Edwin Lutyens, Hendrikus Colijn, Boris Rosing, Augusto Tasso Fragoso, Robbie Ross, and Kijirō Nambu. Among people deceased in 1942, Albert Kahn ranks 127. Before him are Vladislav Vančura, Guglielmo Ferrero, Mohammad Ali Foroughi, Sébastien Faure, Anna Elizabeth Klumpke, and George Andrew Reisner. After him are Roberto Arlt, Kaarel Eenpalu, Jacques-Émile Blanche, Roberto María Ortiz, Otto Herschmann, and Vladimir Petlyakov.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Albert Kahn ranks 3,422 out of 7,253. Before him are Caspar Peucer (1525), Jacob, Margrave of Baden-Baden (1407), Joshua Kimmich (1995), Anton Koberger (1440), Eugenius Johann Christoph Esper (1742), and Princess Alexandrine of Prussia (1842). After him are Christian August of Saxe-Zeitz (1666), Renate Stecher (1950), Christian Gottlob Heyne (1729), Prince Eduard of Saxe-Altenburg (1804), Andreas von Ettingshausen (1796), and Dominikus Zimmermann (1685).

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Among ARCHITECTS In Germany

Among architects born in Germany, Albert Kahn ranks 35. Before him are Friedrich August Stüler (1800), Ernst Ziller (1837), Werner March (1894), Jacques Ignace Hittorff (1792), Ernst May (1886), and Paul Wallot (1841). After him are Dominikus Zimmermann (1685), Helmut Jahn (1940), Carl Humann (1839), Heinrich Tessenow (1876), Herman Sörgel (1885), and Peter Joseph Lenné (1789).

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