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Peter Parler

1330 - 1399

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Peter Parler (German: Peter von Gemünd, Czech: Petr Parléř, Latin: Petrus de Gemunden in Suevia; 1333 – 13 July 1399) was a German-Bohemian architect and sculptor from the Parler family of master builders. Along with his father, Heinrich Parler, he is one of the most prominent and influential craftsmen of the Middle Ages. Born and apprenticed in the town of Schwäbisch Gmünd, Peter worked at several important late Medieval building sites, including Strasbourg, Cologne, and Nuremberg. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Peter Parler has received more than 126,854 page views. His biography is available in 35 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 34 in 2019). Peter Parler is the 78th most popular architect (up from 92nd in 2019), the 733rd most popular biography from Germany (up from 880th in 2019) and the 7th most popular German Architect.

Peter Parler is most famous for his work on the Cathedral of St. Vitus in Prague.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

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    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.23

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.55

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Among ARCHITECTS

Among architects, Peter Parler ranks 78 out of 518. Before him are Marcel Breuer, Erich Mendelsohn, Richard Rogers, Vincenzo Scamozzi, Robert Venturi, and Sebastiano Serlio. After him are Daniel Libeskind, Louis Kahn, Hector Guimard, Richard Neutra, Balthasar Neumann, and Claude Perrault.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1330, Peter Parler ranks 5. Before him are Nicolas Flamel, Edward the Black Prince, Luo Guanzhong, and Gongmin of Goryeo. After him are Louis II, Count of Flanders, Robert III of Scotland, William I, Duke of Bavaria, Altichiero, Lala Şahin Pasha, Francesc Eiximenis, and Radu I of Wallachia. Among people deceased in 1399, Peter Parler ranks 3. Before him are Jadwiga of Poland, and John of Gaunt. After him are Barquq, John IV, Duke of Brittany, Temür Qutlugh, Helen of Bosnia, Otto, Duke of Brunswick-Grubenhagen, and John Spata.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Peter Parler ranks 733 out of 7,253. Before him are Frederick Augustus III of Saxony (1865), Walther Wenck (1900), Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel-Bevern (1715), Max Beckmann (1884), Johann Franz Encke (1791), and Wilhelm Liebknecht (1826). After him are Otto III, Duke of Bavaria (1261), Otto Wilhelm Hermann von Abich (1806), Franz Stuck (1863), Gudrun Burwitz (1929), Harald Schumacher (1954), and Georg von Frundsberg (1473).

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Among ARCHITECTS In Germany

Among architects born in Germany, Peter Parler ranks 7. Before him are Albert Speer (1905), Walter Gropius (1883), Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1886), Karl Friedrich Schinkel (1781), Peter Behrens (1868), and Arno Breker (1900). After him are Frei Otto (1925), Gottfried Semper (1803), Albert Speer (1934), Leo von Klenze (1784), Robert Koldewey (1855), and Gottfried Böhm (1920).

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