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Augustin Ehrensvärd

1710 - 1772

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Field Marshal count Augustin Ehrensvärd (25 September 1710 – 4 October 1772) was a Swedish military officer, military architect, artist, creator of the Suomenlinna (Sveaborg) fortress, Svartholm fortress and the Swedish archipelago fleet. He was born in Fullerö Castle, Barkarö and died in the village of Saris, Mynämäki. In 1747, he was chosen by king Frederick I of Sweden to design and construct a maritime fortress near Helsinki in Finland, then a part of the Kingdom of Sweden. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Augustin Ehrensvärd has received more than 51,447 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. Augustin Ehrensvärd is the 313th most popular architect (down from 280th in 2019), the 473rd most popular biography from Sweden (down from 395th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Swedish Architect.

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Among ARCHITECTS

Among architects, Augustin Ehrensvärd ranks 313 out of 518. Before him are Albert Kahn, Charles Jencks, Dominikus Zimmermann, Joseph Poelaert, Thom Mayne, and Helmut Jahn. After him are Ron Arad, Mauro Codussi, Dominique Perrault, Edwin Lutyens, Carl Humann, and Steven Holl.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1710, Augustin Ehrensvärd ranks 22. Before him are Paolo Renier, Princess Luise Dorothea of Saxe-Meiningen, Princess Amalia of Nassau-Dietz, Johann II Bernoulli, Carl Alexander Clerck, and Adam Gottlob Moltke. After him are Johann Georg Pinsel, Charles Simon Favart, John Ellis, Paul Möhring, and James Ferguson. Among people deceased in 1772, Augustin Ehrensvärd ranks 17. Before him are Jean-Joseph de Mondonville, Princess Mary of Great Britain, Marc-Joseph Marion du Fresne, Frederick III, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg, Pyotr Saltykov, and Charles Pinot Duclos. After him are Count Johann Hartwig Ernst von Bernstorff, Shah Jahan III, Alexander Kokorinov, and Madhavrao I.

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Augustin Ehrensvärd ranks 473 out of 1,879. Before him are Tor Aulin (1866), Eric Ericson (1918), Nils von Kantzow (1885), Axel Pehrsson-Bramstorp (1883), Ingvar Wixell (1931), and Bertil Nordahl (1917). After him are Rickard Sandler (1884), Leif G. W. Persson (1945), Anders Dahl (1751), Åse Kleveland (1949), Christer Pettersson (1947), and Gunilla Bergström (1942).

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Among ARCHITECTS In Sweden

Among architects born in Sweden, Augustin Ehrensvärd ranks 4. Before him are Gunnar Asplund (1885), Nicodemus Tessin the Younger (1654), and William Chambers (1723). After him are Carl Fredrik Adelcrantz (1716), Ragnar Östberg (1866), Sven Markelius (1889), and Ferdinand Boberg (1860).

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