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Balthasar Neumann

1687 - 1753

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Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Balthasar Neumann has received more than 127,142 page views. His biography is available in 40 different languages on Wikipedia. Balthasar Neumann is the 83rd most popular architect (up from 121st in 2019), the 99th most popular biography from Czechia (up from 137th in 2019) 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

Among architects, Balthasar Neumann ranks 83 out of 518Before 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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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1687, Balthasar Neumann ranks 3Before 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 2Before 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 1,200Before 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).

Among ARCHITECTS In Czechia

Among architects born in Czechia, Balthasar Neumann ranks 3Before 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).