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Karl Friedrich Schinkel

Prussian architect, city planner and painter

1781 - 1841

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His biography is available in 61 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 59 in 2024). Karl Friedrich Schinkel is the 26th most popular architect (up from 30th in 2024), the 328th most popular biography from Germany (down from 327th in 2019) and the 4th most popular German Architect.

Karl Friedrich Schinkel was a German architect and painter. He is most famous for the design of the Schauspielhaus in Berlin, the Altes Museum in Berlin, and the Neues Museum in Berlin.

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Karl Friedrich Schinkel ranks #328 among 8,184 people in Pantheon born in Germany, inside the top 5% of that group.

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Karl Friedrich Schinkel's biography appears in 61 language editions of Wikipedia, more than 95% of all Architects.

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Among Architects

Among architects, Karl Friedrich Schinkel ranks 26 out of 533. Before him are Francesco Borromini, Apollodorus of Damascus, Georges-Eugène Haussmann, Renzo Piano, Otto Wagner, and Frank Gehry. After him are Victor Horta, André Le Nôtre, Adolf Loos, Santiago Calatrava, Carlo Maderno, and Henry van de Velde.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1781, Karl Friedrich Schinkel ranks 4. Before him are George Stephenson, Eugène de Beauharnais, and Bernard Bolzano. After him are Siméon Denis Poisson, Louis Joseph, Dauphin of France, René Laennec, Adelbert von Chamisso, David Brewster, Stamford Raffles, William I of Württemberg, and Achim von Arnim. Among people deceased in 1841, Karl Friedrich Schinkel ranks 5. Before him are Nicolas Appert, Johann Friedrich Herbart, Mikhail Lermontov, and William Henry Harrison. After him are Augustin Pyramus de Candolle, Caroline of Baden, George Green, Claude Victor-Perrin, Duc de Belluno, Friedrich Sertürner, Johan August Arfwedson, and Félix Savart.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Karl Friedrich Schinkel ranks 328 out of 8,184. Before him are Bertha Benz (1849), Katharina von Bora (1498), Richard Dedekind (1831), Carl Bosch (1874), Erich Hartmann (1922), and Carl Zeiss (1816). After him are Friedrich Ratzel (1844), Heinrich von Kleist (1777), Wilhelm Frick (1877), Giacomo Meyerbeer (1791), Gustav Stresemann (1878), and Otto Fritz Meyerhof (1884).

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Among Architects In Germany

Among architects born in Germany, Karl Friedrich Schinkel ranks 4. Before him are Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1886), Albert Speer (1905), and Walter Gropius (1883). After him are Peter Behrens (1868), Arno Breker (1900), Albert Speer (1934), Peter Parler (1330), Frei Otto (1925), Gottfried Semper (1803), Leo von Klenze (1784), and Hans Scharoun (1893).

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