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Lars Sonck

1870 - 1956

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Lars Eliel Sonck (10 August 1870 – 14 March 1956) was a Finnish architect. He graduated from Helsinki Polytechnic Institute in 1894 and immediately won a major design competition for a church in Turku, St Michael's Church, ahead of many established architects. The church was designed in the prevailing neo-Gothic style. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Lars Sonck has received more than 41,182 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. Lars Sonck is the 357th most popular architect (down from 345th in 2019), the 200th most popular biography from Finland (down from 170th in 2019) and the 7th most popular Finnish Architect.

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Among ARCHITECTS

Among architects, Lars Sonck ranks 357 out of 518. Before him are Momik, Arturo Soria y Mata, Justus Dahinden, Mario Bellini, Charles Cameron, and Joseph Bové. After him are Peter Joseph Lenné, Juan de Villanueva, Fazlur Rahman Khan, Francesco Laparelli, Wang Shu, and John Soane.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1870, Lars Sonck ranks 109. Before him are Helmer Hanssen, Safvet-beg Bašagić, Amado Nervo, Sascha Schneider, Ferdynand Ruszczyc, and Henri Jaspar. After him are Hans Baluschek, Albert Meyer, Jędrzej Moraczewski, Štefan Banič, Elizabeth Hesselblad, and José María Moncada. Among people deceased in 1956, Lars Sonck ranks 133. Before him are Zoltán Halmay, Emmanouil Tsouderos, Johnny Claes, Hans Carossa, Lorenzo Perosi, and Violet Gibson. After him are Walther Kossel, Princess Marie Louise of Schleswig-Holstein, Touria Chaoui, George Bancroft, Teresa Feoderovna Ries, and Sergei Vasilenko.

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In Finland

Among people born in Finland, Lars Sonck ranks 200 out of 751. Before him are Heikki A. Alikoski (1912), Ralf Törngren (1899), Julius Skutnabb (1889), Harri Larva (1906), Walter Jakobsson (1882), and Valtteri Bottas (1989). After him are Rudolf Walden (1878), Heikki Savolainen (1907), Adolf Ehrnrooth (1905), Arvo Aaltonen (1892), Marion Rung (1945), and Lydia Chukovskaya (1907).

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Among ARCHITECTS In Finland

Among architects born in Finland, Lars Sonck ranks 7. Before him are Alvar Aalto (1898), Aino Aalto (1894), Eliel Saarinen (1873), Eero Saarinen (1910), Eero Aarnio (1932), and Elissa Aalto (1922). After him are Wivi Lönn (1872), Johan Sigfrid Sirén (1889), and Marco Casagrande (1971).

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