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Jakob Prandtauer

1660 - 1726

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Jakob Prandtauer (baptized in Stanz bei Landeck (Tyrol) on 16 July 1660; died in Sankt Pölten on 16 September 1726) was an Austrian Baroque architect. Trained as a stonemason rather than as an architect, he designed and supervised the construction of the church of Melk Abbey, in Melk, Lower Austria. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jakob Prandtauer has received more than 21,787 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Jakob Prandtauer is the 333rd most popular architect (down from 318th in 2019), the 686th most popular biography from Austria (down from 639th in 2019) and the 12th most popular Austrian Architect.

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Among ARCHITECTS

Among architects, Jakob Prandtauer ranks 333 out of 424Before him are Friedrich Gilly, Carl Fredrik Adelcrantz, Albert Kahn, Willem Marinus Dudok, Dankmar Adler, and Paolo Soleri. After him are Ong Teng Cheong, Victor Laloux, Lipót Baumhorn, Giuseppe Valadier, Jaap Bakema, and Shelley McNamara.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1660, Jakob Prandtauer ranks 19Before him are Rafael Casanova, Friedrich Hoffmann, Francesco II d'Este, Duke of Modena, Arnold Houbraken, Olof Rudbeck the Younger, and Francesco Maria de' Medici, Duke of Rovere and Montefeltro. After him are Francis Hauksbee, Jeanne Dumée, and Edward Lhuyd. Among people deceased in 1726, Jakob Prandtauer ranks 14Before him are Christian August of Holstein-Gottorp, Prince of Eutin, Margravine Johanna of Baden-Baden, Princess Henriëtte Amalia of Anhalt-Dessau, Countess Charlotte of Hanau-Lichtenberg, John Vanbrugh, and Antonio Palomino. After him are Guillaume Delisle and Magdalena Sibylla of Saxe-Weissenfels.

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In Austria

Among people born in Austria, Jakob Prandtauer ranks 686 out of 1,237Before him are Karl H. Pribram (1919), Wolfgang Schneiderhan (1915), Alfred Riedl (1949), Lisette Model (1901), Ignaz von Seyfried (1776), and Joseph Schildkraut (1896). After him are Harald Reinl (1908), Theodore Bikel (1924), Karl Markovics (1963), Egon Wellesz (1885), Wlodimir Ledóchowski (1866), and Ernst Stojaspal (1925).

Among ARCHITECTS In Austria

Among architects born in Austria, Jakob Prandtauer ranks 12Before him are Ettore Sottsass (1917), Richard Neutra (1892), Ferdinand Fellner (1847), Josef Frank (1885), Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky (1897), and Christopher Alexander (1936). After him are Heinrich von Ferstel (1828), Mihály Pollack (1773), Baron Karl von Hasenauer (1833), and Rudolph Schindler (1887).