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Bruno Taut

1880 - 1938

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Bruno Julius Florian Taut (4 May 1880 – 24 December 1938) was a renowned German architect, urban planner and author of Prussian Lithuanian heritage ("taut" means "nation" in Lithuanian). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Bruno Taut has received more than 255,769 page views. His biography is available in 38 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 35 in 2019). Bruno Taut is the 66th most popular architect (up from 73rd in 2019), the 228th most popular biography from Russia (up from 254th in 2019) and the most popular Russian Architect.

Bruno Taut is most famous for his contribution to the development of the Bauhaus school of architecture.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

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    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.98

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.43

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ARCHITECTS

Among architects, Bruno Taut ranks 66 out of 518. Before him are Arno Breker, Giuliano da Sangallo, Aldo Rossi, Buckminster Fuller, Josef Hoffmann, and Charles Garnier. After him are Peter Zumthor, Domenico Fontana, Pierre Lescot, Isidore of Miletus, Senenmut, and Marcel Breuer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1880, Bruno Taut ranks 26. Before him are Elton Mayo, Paul Ehrenfest, Max Wertheimer, Otto Weininger, H. L. Mencken, and Vajiravudh. After him are Alexander Blok, Kuniaki Koiso, Vojtech Tuka, Milan Rastislav Štefánik, Michel Fokine, and Giuseppe Moscati. Among people deceased in 1938, Bruno Taut ranks 24. Before him are Robert Johnson, Muhammad Iqbal, Osip Mandelstam, Marie of Romania, Christian Lous Lange, and Cecilia Bowes-Lyon, Countess of Strathmore and Kinghorne. After him are Vasily Blyukher, Grand Duke Kirill Vladimirovich of Russia, Maud of Wales, Lev Shestov, Nikolai Kondratiev, and Branislav Nušić.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Bruno Taut ranks 228 out of 3,761. Before him are Alexander Oparin (1894), Grand Duke Konstantin Nikolayevich of Russia (1827), Nikolay Basov (1922), Vasily I of Moscow (1371), Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy (1883), and Oleg Antonov (1906). After him are Sabina Spielrein (1885), Ivan Kramskoi (1837), Gennady Yanayev (1937), Algirdas Julien Greimas (1917), Ilya Frank (1908), and Daniel of Moscow (1261).

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Among ARCHITECTS In Russia

Among architects born in Russia, Bruno Taut ranks 1. After him are Lev Rudnev (1885), Alexander Tamanian (1878), Konstantin Melnikov (1890), Konstantin Thon (1794), Joseph Bové (1784), Alexander Kokorinov (1726), Vasily Stasov (1769), Andrey Voronikhin (1759), Vasily Bazhenov (1737), Leon Benois (1856), and Matvey Kazakov (1738).

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