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Carl Fredrik Adelcrantz

1716 - 1796

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Carl Fredrik Adelcrantz (30 January 1716 – 1 March 1796) was a Swedish architect and civil servant. Adelcrantz's style developed from a rococo influenced by Carl Hårleman, the leading architect in Sweden in the early years of his career, to a classical idiom influenced by the stylistic developments in France in the mid-to-late 18th century. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Carl Fredrik Adelcrantz has received more than 26,030 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Carl Fredrik Adelcrantz is the 333rd most popular architect (down from 327th in 2019), the 515th most popular biography from Sweden (down from 488th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Swedish Architect.

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Among ARCHITECTS

Among architects, Carl Fredrik Adelcrantz ranks 333 out of 518. Before him are Heinrich Tessenow, José Benito de Churriguera, Anca Petrescu, Władysław Horodecki, Imre Makovecz, and Willem Marinus Dudok. After him are Benedetto Antelami, Henri Dupuy de Lôme, Herman Sörgel, Johan Otto von Spreckelsen, Antonio Rinaldi, and Heinrich von Ferstel.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1716, Carl Fredrik Adelcrantz ranks 17. Before him are Thomas Gray, Luis Egidio Meléndez, Pehr Kalm, Eugenios Voulgaris, Louis-Jean-Marie Daubenton, and Giovanni Battista Beccaria. After him are Jean François de Saint-Lambert, Otto von Münchhausen, Gaspar de Portolá, Capability Brown, and George Germain, 1st Viscount Sackville. Among people deceased in 1796, Carl Fredrik Adelcrantz ranks 22. Before him are Franz Anton Maulbertsch, Alexandre-Théophile Vandermonde, Guillaume Thomas François Raynal, Prince Louis Charles of Prussia, François Séverin Marceau, and William Chambers. After him are Juan José Elhuyar, Philip Carteret, Adam Naruszewicz, David Allan, Ulrika Pasch, and Domenico Lorenzo Ponziani.

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Carl Fredrik Adelcrantz ranks 515 out of 1,879. Before him are Eva Bonnier (1857), Carl Jakob Sundevall (1801), Liza Marklund (1962), Prince Frederick Adolf, Duke of Östergötland (1750), Carl Gustaf Ekman (1872), and Fanny Brate (1861). After him are Gunnar Andersson (1928), Bo Johansson (1942), Anna Q. Nilsson (1888), Henri Saint Cyr (1902), Nils Christoffer Dunér (1839), and Alexander Bard (1961).

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Among ARCHITECTS In Sweden

Among architects born in Sweden, Carl Fredrik Adelcrantz ranks 5. Before him are Gunnar Asplund (1885), Nicodemus Tessin the Younger (1654), William Chambers (1723), and Augustin Ehrensvärd (1710). After him are Ragnar Östberg (1866), Sven Markelius (1889), and Ferdinand Boberg (1860).

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