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Gottfried Böhm

1920 - 2021

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Gottfried Böhm (pronounced [ˈɡɔtfʁiːt ˈbøːm]; 23 January 1920 – 9 June 2021) was a German architect and sculptor. His reputation is based on creating highly sculptural buildings made of concrete, steel, and glass. Böhm's first independent building was the Cologne chapel "Madonna in the Rubble" (now integrated into Peter Zumthor's design of the Kolumba museum renovation). The chapel was completed in 1949 where a medieval church once stood before it was destroyed during World War II. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gottfried Böhm has received more than 179,839 page views. His biography is available in 38 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 37 in 2019). Gottfried Böhm is the 130th most popular architect (up from 152nd in 2019), the 1,404th most popular biography from Germany (up from 1,597th in 2019) and the 13th most popular German Architect.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 38

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.49

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.04

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ARCHITECTS

Among architects, Gottfried Böhm ranks 130 out of 518. Before him are Eliel Saarinen, Antonio da Sangallo the Younger, Dinocrates, Eero Saarinen, Gunnar Asplund, and Camillo Sitte. After him are Rafael Moneo, James Stirling, Inigo Jones, Lina Bo Bardi, Hans Scharoun, and Alonzo Cano.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1920, Gottfried Böhm ranks 81. Before him are Arthur Hailey, Alicia Alonso, Yoshiko Yamaguchi, Dorothea Binz, Maurice Bucaille, and Frank Sheeran. After him are Mehdi Ben Barka, Peter D. Mitchell, Mario Benedetti, Hans Blumenberg, Henri Verneuil, and José López Portillo y Pacheco. Among people deceased in 2021, Gottfried Böhm ranks 81. Before him are Larry Flynt, Milva, Mamnoon Hussain, Walter Mondale, Hannu Mikkola, and Bertrand Tavernier. After him are Abdelkader Bensalah, Dušan Ivković, Tanya Roberts, Dean Stockwell, Vicente Fernández, and Helen McCrory.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Gottfried Böhm ranks 1,404 out of 7,253. Before him are Lothar de Maizière (1940), Walter Kasper (1933), Georg Wilhelm Steller (1709), Charles II, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (1741), Hermann Goldschmidt (1802), and Henry III, Margrave of Meissen (1218). After him are Princess Sophie Antoinette of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (1724), Toni Kroos (1990), Joachim Fest (1926), Maria Reiche (1903), Duke Maximilian Emanuel in Bavaria (1849), and Joachim Sauer (1949).

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Among ARCHITECTS In Germany

Among architects born in Germany, Gottfried Böhm ranks 13. Before him are Peter Parler (1330), Frei Otto (1925), Gottfried Semper (1803), Albert Speer (1934), Leo von Klenze (1784), and Robert Koldewey (1855). After him are Hans Scharoun (1893), Ludwig Borchardt (1863), Carl Ludvig Engel (1778), Ernst Neufert (1900), Günter Behnisch (1922), and Paul Troost (1878).

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