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Sigfried Giedion

1888 - 1968

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Sigfried Giedion (also spelled Siegfried Giedion; 14 April 1888, Prague – 10 April 1968, Zürich) was a Bohemian-born Swiss historian and critic of architecture. His ideas and books, Space, Time and Architecture, and Mechanization Takes Command, had an important conceptual influence on the members of the Independent Group at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in the 1950s. Giedion was a pupil of Heinrich Wölfflin. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Sigfried Giedion has received more than 125,504 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Sigfried Giedion is the 220th most popular historian (down from 204th in 2019), the 355th most popular biography from Czechia (down from 336th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Czech Historian.

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Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Sigfried Giedion ranks 220 out of 561. Before him are Heinrich Graetz, Antiochus of Syracuse, Vasily Klyuchevsky, Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés, Ivane Javakhishvili, and John Foxe. After him are Ahmad Kasravi, Albert Soboul, Moritz Cantor, Ghazar Parpetsi, Bernard Berenson, and Henri Maspero.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1888, Sigfried Giedion ranks 115. Before him are Sophus Nielsen, Carl Hilpert, Marcel L'Herbier, Michał Sopoćko, Karl Pfeffer-Wildenbruch, and Lead Belly. After him are Árpád Szakasits, Ramón Gómez de la Serna, Josef Beran, Archduchess Isabella of Austria, Friedrich Wolf, and Hans Graf von Sponeck. Among people deceased in 1968, Sigfried Giedion ranks 101. Before him are Ramón Menéndez Pidal, Gholamreza Takhti, Tian Han, Herbert Read, Randolph Churchill, and George Hackenschmidt. After him are Alfredo Foglino, Anthony Asquith, Sergei Natanovich Bernstein, Khuang Aphaiwong, Armando Castellazzi, and Gunnar Ekelöf.

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, Sigfried Giedion ranks 355 out of 1,200. Before him are Svatopluk Pluskal (1930), Zdeněk Burian (1905), Franz Krommer (1759), Hedwiga Rosenbaumová (1864), Josef Kadraba (1933), and Václav Talich (1883). After him are Fritz Mauthner (1849), Jiří Sobotka (1911), Jiří Raška (1941), Zdeněk Svěrák (1936), Bretislav III (1200), and Tom Stoppard (1937).

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Among HISTORIANS In Czechia

Among historians born in Czechia, Sigfried Giedion ranks 2. Before him are Max Dvořák (1874). After him are Saul Friedländer (1932), Miroslav Hroch (1932), Yehuda Bauer (1926), Zdeněk Nejedlý (1878), and Anton Heinrich Springer (1825).

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