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Ildefons Cerdà

1815 - 1876

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Ildefons Cerdà Sunyer (Catalan pronunciation: [ildəˈfons səɾˈða i suˈɲe]; Spanish: Ildefonso Cerdá Suñer; 23 December 1815, Centelles – 21 August 1876, Caldas de Besaya) was a Spanish urban planner and civil engineer who designed the 19th-century "extension" of Barcelona called the Eixample. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ildefons Cerdà has received more than 384,202 page views. His biography is available in 35 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 33 in 2019). Ildefons Cerdà is the 38th most popular engineer (up from 40th in 2019), the 285th most popular biography from Spain (up from 307th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Spanish Engineer.

Ildefons Cerdà is most famous for his work on the Eixample, a grid-like expansion of Barcelona.

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    Languages Editions (L)

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Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, Ildefons Cerdà ranks 38 out of 389. Before him are Theodore von Kármán, Emil Škoda, Hugo Junkers, Villard de Honnecourt, Pavel Sukhoi, and Felix Wankel. After him are Ernst Heinkel, Howard H. Aiken, Anthony Fokker, Sergey Ilyushin, Marcello Gandini, and William John Macquorn Rankine.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1815, Ildefons Cerdà ranks 10. Before him are George Boole, Karl Weierstrass, Otto of Greece, Louis-Jules Trochu, Adolph Menzel, and Johann Jakob Bachofen. After him are Thomas Couture, Julia Margaret Cameron, Ľudovít Štúr, Josip Juraj Strossmayer, Lorenz von Stein, and Ernest Meissonier. Among people deceased in 1876, Ildefons Cerdà ranks 11. Before him are Truganini, Karl Ernst von Baer, George Armstrong Custer, Antonio López de Santa Anna, Catherine Labouré, and Marie d'Agoult. After him are Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg, Maria Vittoria dal Pozzo, Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna of Russia, Francesco Maria Piave, Hristo Botev, and Antoine Jérôme Balard.

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In Spain

Among people born in Spain, Ildefons Cerdà ranks 285 out of 3,355. Before him are Eleanor of Aragon, Queen of Portugal (1402), Muhammad I of Granada (1194), Abraham Abulafia (1240), Liuvigild (525), Cardinal-Infante Ferdinand of Austria (1609), and Fernando Alonso (1981). After him are Ibn Zuhr (1091), Jesús Franco (1930), Marcus Annius Verus (100), Al-Hakam I (770), Sancho IV of Castile (1258), and Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca (1488).

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Among ENGINEERS In Spain

Among engineers born in Spain, Ildefons Cerdà ranks 2. Before him are José Echegaray (1832). After him are Álvaro del Portillo (1914), and Agustín de Betancourt (1758).

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