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Nicodemus Tessin the Younger

1654 - 1728

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Count Nicodemus Tessin the Younger (23 May 1654 – 10 April 1728) was a Swedish Baroque architect, city planner, and administrator. The son of Nicodemus Tessin the Elder and the father of Carl Gustaf Tessin, Tessin the Younger was the middle generation of the brief Tessin dynasty, which has had a lasting influence on Swedish architecture and history. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Nicodemus Tessin the Younger has received more than 58,158 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Nicodemus Tessin the Younger is the 201st most popular architect (up from 217th in 2019), the 306th most popular biography from Sweden (up from 309th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Swedish Architect.

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Among ARCHITECTS

Among architects, Nicodemus Tessin the Younger ranks 201 out of 518. Before him are Shigeru Ban, Luigi Vanvitelli, Adrian Smith, Mart Stam, Henning Larsen, and Henri Labrouste. After him are Lilly Reich, Elissa Aalto, Christian de Portzamparc, Alexander Tamanian, Adolphe Appia, and Jacques Lemercier.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1654, Nicodemus Tessin the Younger ranks 10. Before him are Louis Joseph, Duke of Vendôme, Pierre Varignon, Charles I, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel, Archduchess Maria Anna Josepha of Austria, Agostino Steffani, and Constantin Brâncoveanu. After him are Danylo Apostol, John Frederick, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach, Vincent Lübeck, Giovanni Maria Lancisi, Jakob Abbadie, and Pedro Calungsod. Among people deceased in 1728, Nicodemus Tessin the Younger ranks 8. Before him are Marin Marais, Anne Marie d'Orléans, Christian Thomasius, Augusta Marie of Holstein-Gottorp, Agostino Steffani, and Countess Palatine Elisabeth Auguste Sofie of Neuburg. After him are Maria Aurora von Königsmarck, William Ernest, Duke of Saxe-Weimar, Leopold, Prince of Anhalt-Köthen, Frederick Louis, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck, Davit Bek, and Fyodor Apraksin.

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Nicodemus Tessin the Younger ranks 306 out of 1,879. Before him are Lill-Babs (1938), Lennart Skoglund (1929), Prince Carl Bernadotte (1911), Anders Gustaf Ekeberg (1767), Engelbrekt Engelbrektsson (1390), and Jo Bonnier (1930). After him are Pernilla August (1958), Rogvolod (901), Wilhelm Stenhammar (1871), Gillis Grafström (1893), Håkan the Red (1040), and Sven Nordqvist (1946).

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Among ARCHITECTS In Sweden

Among architects born in Sweden, Nicodemus Tessin the Younger ranks 2. Before him are Gunnar Asplund (1885). After him are William Chambers (1723), Augustin Ehrensvärd (1710), Carl Fredrik Adelcrantz (1716), Ragnar Östberg (1866), Sven Markelius (1889), and Ferdinand Boberg (1860).

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