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Kolyu Ficheto

1800 - 1881

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Nikola Fichev (Bulgarian: Никола Фичев; 1800 in Direnova, Ottoman Empire – 1881 in Veliko Tarnovo, Principality of Bulgaria), commonly known as Kolyo Ficheto (Bulgarian: Колю Фичето) or with his Turkish honorific Usta (Master) Kolyo Ficheto, was a Bulgarian National Revival architect, builder and sculptor born in Dryanovo (then called Direnova) in 1800. Left an orphan without a father at the age of three, Kolyu Ficheto was taught craftsmanship by the masterhands in the Trevne town (today Tryavna) since he was ten. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Kolyu Ficheto has received more than 35,408 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Kolyu Ficheto is the 462nd most popular architect (down from 416th in 2019), the 225th most popular biography from Bulgaria (down from 201st in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Bulgarian Architect.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.79

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.32

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ARCHITECTS

Among architects, Kolyu Ficheto ranks 462 out of 518. Before him are Andrei Stackenschneider, Francisco Javier Sáenz de Oiza, Alexander Wittek, Ivan Fomin, Nicholas Hawksmoor, and Kenneth Frampton. After him are Gunnar Birkerts, Suad Amiry, Max Taut, Harry Vardon, Patricia Urquiola, and Julia Morgan.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1800, Kolyu Ficheto ranks 75. Before him are Heinrich Göppert, Brian Houghton Hodgson, Rómulo Díaz de la Vega, Ayub Shah Durrani, Sir William Jardine, 7th Baronet, and Christian Lassen. After him are George Bancroft, Gilbert Thomas Burnett, Juan Francisco de Vidal, George Bingham, 3rd Earl of Lucan, Ali Shah Durrani, and Peter the Aleut. Among people deceased in 1881, Kolyu Ficheto ranks 78. Before him are Wilhelm Matthias Naeff, Salvador Jovellanos, George Borrow, Robert Mallet, Maurice Raynaud, and Samuel Palmer. After him are Jānis Cimze, Johann Ludwig Krapf, Josip Jurčič, James Collinson, John C. Pemberton, and Isaac Israel Hayes.

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In Bulgaria

Among people born in Bulgaria, Kolyu Ficheto ranks 225 out of 415. Before him are Ivan Vutsov (1939), Nasko Sirakov (1962), Anton Donchev (1930), Yordanka Donkova (1961), Petar Gabrovski (1898), and Dimitar Dimov (1909). After him are Georgi Naydenov (1931), Plamen Oresharski (1960), Yordan Radichkov (1929), Manuela Maleeva (1967), Kliment of Tarnovo (1841), and Kiril Rakarov (1932).

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Among ARCHITECTS In Bulgaria

Among architects born in Bulgaria, Kolyu Ficheto ranks 2. Before him are Constantinos Apostolou Doxiadis (1913). After him are Sunay Erdem (1971).

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