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Carl Ritter von Ghega

1802 - 1860

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Karl Ritter von Ghega or Karl von Ghega (10 January 1802 – 14 March 1860) was an Austrian nobleman and the designer of the Semmering Railway from Gloggnitz to Mürzzuschlag. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Carl Ritter von Ghega has received more than 49,390 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Carl Ritter von Ghega is the 169th most popular architect (up from 171st in 2019), the 1,818th most popular biography from Italy (down from 1,780th in 2019) and the 28th most popular Italian Architect.

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Among ARCHITECTS

Among architects, Carl Ritter von Ghega ranks 169 out of 518. Before him are Mikhail Eisenstein, Carl Ludvig Engel, Michael Ventris, Bernard Tschumi, Kisho Kurokawa, and Jacques-François Blondel. After him are Ernst Neufert, Günter Behnisch, William Le Baron Jenney, Joseph Paxton, Hassan Fathy, and Charles Eames.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1802, Carl Ritter von Ghega ranks 23. Before him are Harriet Martineau, Alcide d'Orbigny, Nikolaus Lenau, Hermann Goldschmidt, Ignacy Domeyko, and Charlotte Bonaparte. After him are Charles Auguste de Bériot, Johann Friedrich von Brandt, Arnold Ruge, Leopold Fitzinger, Adolphe Nourrit, and Frederick William, Elector of Hesse. Among people deceased in 1860, Carl Ritter von Ghega ranks 17. Before him are Princess Juliane of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, Danilo I, Prince of Montenegro, István Széchenyi, William Walker, Ang Duong, and James Broun-Ramsay, 1st Marquess of Dalhousie. After him are George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen, Ernst Moritz Arndt, Thomas Addison, Johann Georg Christian Lehmann, Ii Naosuke, and Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Carl Ritter von Ghega ranks 1,818 out of 5,161. Before him are Pippo Spano (1369), Antonio Maria Valsalva (1666), Giovanni Pacini (1796), Antonio Maria Abbatini (1595), Giuseppe Sinopoli (1946), and Roberto Boninsegna (1943). After him are Gaius Vibius Pansa Caetronianus (-91), Ottavio Piccolomini (1599), Nicola Abbagnano (1901), Giacomo Manzù (1908), Giuseppe Bertello (1942), and Catherine de' Medici, Governor of Siena (1593).

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Among ARCHITECTS In Italy

Among architects born in Italy, Carl Ritter von Ghega ranks 28. Before him are Antonio da Sangallo the Younger (1484), Lina Bo Bardi (1914), Filippo Juvarra (1678), Antonio Sant'Elia (1888), Carlo Scarpa (1906), and Pier Luigi Nervi (1891). After him are Gio Ponti (1891), Michele Sanmicheli (1484), Luigi Vanvitelli (1700), Giovanni Antonio Amadeo (1447), Giacomo Quarenghi (1744), and Giuseppe Terragni (1904).

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