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Gottfried Semper

1803 - 1879

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Gottfried Semper (German: [ˈɡɔtfʁiːt ˈzɛmpɐ]; 29 November 1803 – 15 May 1879) was a German architect, art critic, and professor of architecture who designed and built the Semper Opera House in Dresden between 1838 and 1841. In 1849 he took part in the May Uprising in Dresden and was put on the government's wanted list. He fled first to Zürich and later to London. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gottfried Semper has received more than 255,226 page views. His biography is available in 34 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 33 in 2019). Gottfried Semper is the 87th most popular architect (down from 79th in 2019), the 846th most popular biography from Germany (down from 734th in 2019) and the 9th most popular German Architect.

Gottfried Semper is most famous for being a German architect who designed the Semper Opera House in Dresden, Germany.

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Among ARCHITECTS

Among architects, Gottfried Semper ranks 87 out of 518. Before him are Hector Guimard, Richard Neutra, Balthasar Neumann, Claude Perrault, Mario Botta, and Frei Otto. After him are Johann Lukas von Hildebrandt, Sostratus of Cnidus, Bartolomeo Ammannati, Francesco Bartolomeo Rastrelli, Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach, and Mnesikles.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1803, Gottfried Semper ranks 10. Before him are Ralph Waldo Emerson, Justus von Liebig, Adolphe Adam, Maria Anna of Savoy, Albrecht von Roon, and Charles Lucien Bonaparte. After him are Flora Tristan, Fyodor Tyutchev, Friedrich von Amerling, Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald, Ferenc Deák, and Maria Josepha Amalia of Saxony. Among people deceased in 1879, Gottfried Semper ranks 8. Before him are Bernadette Soubirous, Honoré Daumier, Napoléon, Prince Imperial, Eugène Viollet-le-Duc, Adolf Anderssen, and Albrecht von Roon. After him are Thomas Couture, Julia Margaret Cameron, August Grisebach, Charles De Coster, Jón Sigurðsson, and Maria Teresa of Savoy.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Gottfried Semper ranks 846 out of 7,253. Before him are Johann Deisenhofer (1943), Hugo Junkers (1859), Maurice, Elector of Saxony (1521), Hans Fallada (1893), Caroline of Brunswick (1768), and Therese of Saxe-Hildburghausen (1792). After him are Amalie Auguste of Bavaria (1801), Richard Baer (1911), Georg Bednorz (1950), Walter Baade (1893), Joseph Berchtold (1897), and Henry I, Duke of Bavaria (920).

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Among ARCHITECTS In Germany

Among architects born in Germany, Gottfried Semper ranks 9. Before him are Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1886), Karl Friedrich Schinkel (1781), Peter Behrens (1868), Arno Breker (1900), Peter Parler (1330), and Frei Otto (1925). After him are Albert Speer (1934), Leo von Klenze (1784), Robert Koldewey (1855), Gottfried Böhm (1920), Hans Scharoun (1893), and Ludwig Borchardt (1863).

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