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Balthasar Neumann

1687 - 1753

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Johann Balthasar Neumann (; c. 27 January 1687 – 19 August 1753), usually known as Balthasar Neumann, was a German architect and military artillery engineer who developed a refined brand of Baroque architecture, fusing Austrian, Bohemian, Italian, and French elements to design some of the most impressive buildings of the period, including the Würzburg Residence and the Basilica of the Fourteen Holy Helpers (called Vierzehnheiligen in German). The Würzburg Residence is considered one of the most beautiful and well proportioned palaces in Europe and the Basilica of the Fourteen Holy Helpers is considered by some as the crowning work of the period. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Balthasar Neumann is the 83rd most popular architect, the 99th most popular biography from Czechia and the 3rd most popular Czech Architect.

Balthasar Neumann was a German architect and landscape architect who is most famous for designing the garden of Schloss Augustusburg in Brühl, Germany.

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Among architects, Balthasar Neumann ranks 83 out of 518. Before him are Sebastiano Serlio, Peter Parler, Daniel Libeskind, Louis Kahn, Hector Guimard, and Richard Neutra. After him are Claude Perrault, Mario Botta, Frei Otto, Gottfried Semper, Johann Lukas von Hildebrandt, and Sostratus of Cnidus.

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Among people born in 1687, Balthasar Neumann ranks 3. Before him are Sophia Dorothea of Hanover, and John William Friso, Prince of Orange. After him are Francesco Geminiani, Giambattista Pittoni, Sylvius Leopold Weiss, Johann Georg Pisendel, Anton Ulrich, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen, Johann Heinrich Schulze, Nicolaus I Bernoulli, Robert Simson, and William Stukeley. Among people deceased in 1753, Balthasar Neumann ranks 2. Before him is George Berkeley. After him are Hans Sloane, Georg Wenzeslaus von Knobelsdorff, Gottfried Silbermann, Georg Wilhelm Richmann, Louise Bénédicte de Bourbon, Charles August, Prince of Nassau-Weilburg, Franciszka Urszula Radziwiłłowa, Nicolas Fatio de Duillier, Johann Nicolaus Bach, and Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington.

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, Balthasar Neumann ranks 99 out of 1,200. Before him are Prokop the Great (1380), Alois Senefelder (1771), Jobst of Moravia (1351), Henry of Bohemia (1265), Pavel Nedvěd (1972), and Marie, Princess of Liechtenstein (1940). After him are Vratislaus II of Bohemia (1035), Konrad Henlein (1898), Eduard Bloch (1872), Jan Neruda (1834), Jaroslav Heyrovský (1890), and Oldřich Nejedlý (1909).

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Among ARCHITECTS In Czechia

Among architects born in Czechia, Balthasar Neumann ranks 3. Before him are Adolf Loos (1870), and Josef Hoffmann (1870). After him are Joseph Maria Olbrich (1867), Kilian Ignaz Dientzenhofer (1689), Jan Santini Aichel (1677), Adolf Lang (1848), Jan Kaplický (1937), Jan Kotěra (1871), and Josef Gočár (1880).

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