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Johan Otto von Spreckelsen

1929 - 1987

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Johan Otto von Spreckelsen (4 May 1929 – 16 March 1987) was a Danish architect, best known for designing the Grande Arche of La Défense in Puteaux, near Paris. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Johan Otto von Spreckelsen has received more than 61,408 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia. Johan Otto von Spreckelsen is the 337th most popular architect (down from 282nd in 2019), the 361st most popular biography from Denmark (down from 292nd in 2019) and the 8th most popular Danish Architect.

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    Effective Languages (L*)

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    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ARCHITECTS

Among architects, Johan Otto von Spreckelsen ranks 337 out of 518. Before him are Imre Makovecz, Willem Marinus Dudok, Carl Fredrik Adelcrantz, Benedetto Antelami, Henri Dupuy de Lôme, and Herman Sörgel. After him are Antonio Rinaldi, Heinrich von Ferstel, Giuseppe Valadier, Thomas Telford, Lorenzo Gafà, and Georges Candilis.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1929, Johan Otto von Spreckelsen ranks 262. Before him are Slavko Avsenik, Hermann Prey, Ken McGregor, Harry Frankfurt, Maarten Schmidt, and Barbara Walters. After him are Stanisław Mikulski, Rudi Glöckner, Vija Artmane, John Turner, Francesco Alberoni, and Tomislav Crnković. Among people deceased in 1987, Johan Otto von Spreckelsen ranks 134. Before him are Gilberto Freyre, Charles Malik, Arne Brustad, Gustav Knuth, James Tiptree Jr., and Fatemeh Pahlavi. After him are Aldo Boffi, Jacob Taubes, Viktor Nekrasov, Bayard Rustin, Chögyam Trungpa, and Yūjirō Ishihara.

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In Denmark

Among people born in Denmark, Johan Otto von Spreckelsen ranks 361 out of 1,032. Before him are Greta Andersen (1927), Thorkild Hansen (1927), Johnny Hansen (1943), Agner Krarup Erlang (1878), Johannes Jørgensen (1866), and Bernhard Severin Ingemann (1789). After him are Mikkel Hansen (1987), Peter Wilhelm Lund (1801), Karen Harup (1924), Hilmar Baunsgaard (1920), Philip, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg (1584), and Johan Ludvig Heiberg (1791).

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Among ARCHITECTS In Denmark

Among architects born in Denmark, Johan Otto von Spreckelsen ranks 8. Before him are Jørn Utzon (1918), Theophil Hansen (1813), Verner Panton (1926), Jan Gehl (1936), Henning Larsen (1925), and Christian Frederik Hansen (1756). After him are Kaare Klint (1888), and Bjarke Ingels (1974).

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