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Alois Riegl

1858 - 1905

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Alois Riegl (14 January 1858 – 17 June 1905) was an Austrian art historian, and is considered a member of the Vienna School of Art History. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alois Riegl has received more than 176,093 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia. Alois Riegl is the 103rd most popular historian (down from 90th in 2019), the 336th most popular biography from Austria (down from 323rd in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Austrian Historian.

Alois Riegl is most famous for his theory of art history, which is called the "periods of style." He believed that styles change over time and that they can be divided into three periods: Byzantine, Romanesque, and Gothic.

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  • 1.42

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Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Alois Riegl ranks 103 out of 561. Before him are Christoph Cellarius, Eunapius, Matrakçı Nasuh, Arthur Moeller van den Bruck, Cangjie, and Shlomo Sand. After him are Sextus Julius Africanus, Jean-Pierre Vernant, Andrea Alciato, Reinhart Koselleck, Golo Mann, and Paul Veyne.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1858, Alois Riegl ranks 43. Before him are Saad Zaghloul, Prince Henry of Battenberg, Gaetano Mosca, Saitō Makoto, Jan Toorop, and Remy de Gourmont. After him are Wolfgang Kapp, Fernand Khnopff, Carl Auer von Welsbach, Bonar Law, Oldfield Thomas, and Albrecht Penck. Among people deceased in 1905, Alois Riegl ranks 19. Before him are Carl Wernicke, Albert Edelfelt, Leopold, Prince of Hohenzollern, Élisée Reclus, Walther Flemming, and Josip Juraj Strossmayer. After him are Constantin Meunier, Oswald Achenbach, Archduke Joseph Karl of Austria, Alphonse Allais, Anton Ažbe, and Hudson Taylor.

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In Austria

Among people born in Austria, Alois Riegl ranks 336 out of 1,424. Before him are Karl Leonhard Reinhold (1757), Shlomo Sand (1946), Erich Kleiber (1890), Haim Bar-Lev (1924), Franz Sacher (1816), and Ettore Sottsass (1917). After him are Johann Heinrich Schmelzer (1620), Joseph Mohr (1792), Leopold IV, Duke of Austria (1371), Margaret of Austria, Queen of Bohemia (1204), Robert, Archduke of Austria-Este (1915), and Archduke Joseph Ferdinand of Austria (1872).

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Among HISTORIANS In Austria

Among historians born in Austria, Alois Riegl ranks 3. Before him are Ernst Gombrich (1909), and Shlomo Sand (1946). After him are Egon Friedell (1878), İlber Ortaylı (1947), Gerda Lerner (1920), Andreas Maislinger (1955), Riane Eisler (1931), and Herwig Wolfram (1934).

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