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Alois Riegl

1858 - 1905

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Alois Riegl (14 January 1858, Linz – 17 June 1905, Vienna) 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 162,549 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia. Alois Riegl is the 90th most popular historian (down from 83rd in 2019), the 323rd most popular biography from Austria (down from 291st in 2019) and the 2nd 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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Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Alois Riegl ranks 90 out of 339. Before him are Flavio Biondo, George Ostrogorsky, Shoqan Walikhanov, Al-Maqrizi, Sozomen, and Lev Gumilyov. After him are Tyrannius Rufinus, Andrea Alciato, Sextus Julius Africanus, Al-Waqidi, Hieronymus Wolf, and Arthur Moeller van den Bruck.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1858, Alois Riegl ranks 36. Before him are André Antoine, Fernand Khnopff, Prince Henry of Battenberg, Grand Duke Konstantin Konstantinovich of Russia, Giovanni Segantini, and Princess Louise of Belgium. After him are Michael Hainisch, Keke Geladze, Ludwig Quidde, Gaetano Mosca, Carl Auer von Welsbach, and Saad Zaghloul. Among people deceased in 1905, Alois Riegl ranks 18. Before him are Leopold, Prince of Hohenzollern, Élisée Reclus, Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza, Walther Flemming, Albert Edelfelt, and Josip Juraj Strossmayer. After him are Constantin Meunier, Archduke Joseph Karl of Austria, Hudson Taylor, Ivan Sechenov, Alphonse Allais, and Oswald Achenbach.

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In Austria

Among people born in Austria, Alois Riegl ranks 323 out of 1,237. Before him are Maximilian, Duke of Hohenberg (1902), Georg von Peuerbach (1423), Fritjof Capra (1939), Walter Kohn (1923), Baron Alexander von Bach (1813), and Rudolf Hilferding (1877). After him are Michael Hainisch (1858), Senta Berger (1941), Franz Jonas (1899), Ettore Sottsass (1917), Alois Hudal (1885), and Anton Florian, Prince of Liechtenstein (1656).

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Among HISTORIANS In Austria

Among historians born in Austria, Alois Riegl ranks 2. Before him are Ernst Gombrich (1909). After him are Shlomo Sand (1946), Egon Friedell (1878), Gerda Lerner (1920), İlber Ortaylı (1947), Riane Eisler (1931), and Andreas Maislinger (1955).

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