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Carl Gotthard Langhans

1732 - 1808

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Carl Gotthard Langhans (15 December 1732 – 1 October 1808) was a Prussian master builder and royal architect. His churches, palaces, grand houses, interiors, city gates and theatres in Silesia (now Poland), Berlin, Potsdam and elsewhere belong to the earliest examples of Neoclassical architecture in Germany. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Carl Gotthard Langhans has received more than 76,271 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Carl Gotthard Langhans is the 118th most popular architect (up from 131st in 2019), the 254th most popular biography from Poland (up from 273rd in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Polish Architect.

Langhans was a German architect who is most famous for designing the Berlin Wall.

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Among ARCHITECTS

Among architects, Carl Gotthard Langhans ranks 118 out of 518. Before him are Philip Johnson, Francesco di Giorgio Martini, Baldassare Longhena, Eileen Gray, Theophil Hansen, and Hemiunu. After him are Toyo Ito, Peter Eisenman, Leo von Klenze, Robert Koldewey, Jacques-Germain Soufflot, and Eliel Saarinen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1732, Carl Gotthard Langhans ranks 15. Before him are Adélaïde of France, Johann Christoph Adelung, Richard Arkwright, Abbas III, John Dickinson, and Frederick II Eugene, Duke of Württemberg. After him are Warren Hastings, Peter Forsskål, Jeanne Julie Éléonore de Lespinasse, Hieronymus von Colloredo, František Brixi, and Joseph von Sonnenfels. Among people deceased in 1808, Carl Gotthard Langhans ranks 7. Before him are Selim III, Christian VII of Denmark, Mustafa IV, Archduchess Maria Elisabeth of Austria, John Dickinson, and Alexei Grigoryevich Orlov. After him are Johan Christian Fabricius, Hubert Robert, Pierre Jean Georges Cabanis, Gaétan Vestris, Friedrich Kasimir Medikus, and Alemdar Mustafa Pasha.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Carl Gotthard Langhans ranks 254 out of 1,694. Before him are Anna von Schweidnitz (1339), Hermann Grassmann (1809), Abraham Gottlob Werner (1749), Itzhak Stern (1901), Erich Fellgiebel (1886), and Otto Klemperer (1885). After him are Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff (1848), Albert Barillé (1920), Nikolai Myaskovsky (1881), Jan Długosz (1415), Alexander Bogdanov (1873), and Franz Mehring (1846).

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Among ARCHITECTS In Poland

Among architects born in Poland, Carl Gotthard Langhans ranks 3. Before him are Erich Mendelsohn (1887), and Daniel Libeskind (1946). After him are Georg Wenzeslaus von Knobelsdorff (1699), Marian Spychalski (1906), Friedrich Gilly (1772), Max Berg (1870), Wojciech Zabłocki (1930), and Elizabeth Diller (1958).

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