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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 118,758 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Sigfried Giedion is the 204th most popular historian (down from 161st in 2019), the 336th most popular biography from Czechia (down from 273rd in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Czech Historian.

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Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Sigfried Giedion ranks 204 out of 339. Before him are Lyudmila Alexeyeva, Yitzhak Arad, Henri Maspero, Halil İnalcık, Antiochus of Syracuse, and Krste Misirkov. After him are Évariste Lévi-Provençal, Vasily Klyuchevsky, Fritz Fischer, Ahmad Kasravi, Philochorus, and Ibn Sa'id al-Maghribi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1888, Sigfried Giedion ranks 109. Before him are Archduchess Isabella of Austria, Hans Graf von Sponeck, Harilal Gandhi, José Félix Estigarribia, Odile Defraye, and Mohammed Hussein Heikal. After him are Viktor Kingissepp, Michał Sopoćko, Thomas C. Kinkaid, Antonio Ascari, Joachim Lemelsen, and Jean Wahl. Among people deceased in 1968, Sigfried Giedion ranks 99. Before him are Gholamreza Takhti, Gabriel Hanot, Anthony Asquith, Herbert Read, Hitoshi Imamura, and Camille Huysmans. After him are Zaki al-Arsuzi, Lina Stern, Jan Johansson, Gunnar Ekelöf, Mercedes de Acosta, and Khuang Aphaiwong.

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, Sigfried Giedion ranks 336 out of 973. Before him are Count Gustav Kálnoky (1832), Gorazd (1879), Karel Havlíček Borovský (1821), Jan Železný (1966), Julius Francis, Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg (1641), and Soběslav II, Duke of Bohemia (1128). After him are Jana Brejchová (1940), Vladimír Remek (1948), Józef Czapski (1896), František Čáp (1913), Jan Zajíc (1950), and Charlotte of Schaumburg-Lippe (1864).

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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), Yehuda Bauer (1926), Anton Heinrich Springer (1825), and Zdeněk Nejedlý (1878).

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