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Adolf Meyer

1881 - 1929

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Adolf Meyer (17 June 1881, Mechernich – 14 July 1929, the Island of Baltrum) was a German architect. A student and employee of both Bruno Paul and Peter Behrens, Meyer became the office boss of the firm of Walter Gropius around 1915 and a full partner afterwards. In 1919, Gropius appointed Meyer as a master at the Bauhaus, where he taught work drawing and construction technique. Between 1920 and 1921, Gropius and Meyer worked together to create the architectural design for the Sommerfeld House. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Adolf Meyer is the 230th most popular architect (up from 234th in 2019), the 2,537th most popular biography from Germany (down from 2,468th in 2019) and the 24th most popular German Architect.

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Among ARCHITECTS

Among architects, Adolf Meyer ranks 230 out of 518. Before him are Hermogenes of Priene, Nicholas Negroponte, Vittorio Gregotti, Shigeru Ban, Adrian Smith, and Félix Candela. After him are Kevin Roche, Carl Ritter von Ghega, Callinicus of Heliopolis, Hermann Tilke, Cornelis Floris de Vriendt, and Giuseppe Terragni.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1881, Adolf Meyer ranks 90. Before him are Titus Brandsma, Wilhelm Lehmbruck, Väinö Tanner, Eugène Schueller, Juliusz Rómmel, and Octavian Goga. After him are Alberts Kviesis, Karl Staaf, Valery Larbaud, Wilhelm Worringer, Sir George Thomas, 7th Baronet, and Israel Zolli. Among people deceased in 1929, Adolf Meyer ranks 58. Before him are Georg von der Marwitz, Asa Griggs Candler, Aletta Jacobs, Raoul Pictet, José Batlle y Ordóñez, and Princess Olga Paley. After him are Hans Delbrück, Basil III of Constantinople, Elfrida Andrée, Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery, Rattanbai Jinnah, and Gotō Shinpei.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Adolf Meyer ranks 2,538 out of 7,253. Before him are John Albert II (1590), Princess Sophie Charlotte of Brandenburg-Bayreuth (1713), Alexander Lippisch (1894), Johann Michael Bach (1648), Otto Schott (1851), and Princess Charlotte of Hesse-Darmstadt (1755). After him are William II, Elector of Hesse (1777), Felix Nussbaum (1904), John George II, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau (1627), Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann (1916), Hubert Blaine Wolfeschlegelsteinhausenbergerdorff Sr. (1914), and Anna Sophie of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg (1670).

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Among ARCHITECTS In Germany

Among architects born in Germany, Adolf Meyer ranks 24. Before him are Günter Behnisch (1922), Matthäus Daniel Pöppelmann (1662), Robert Koldewey (1855), Hans Poelzig (1869), Ernst Neufert (1900), and Friedrich von Schmidt (1825). After him are Hermann Tilke (1954), Nicodemus Tessin the Elder (1615), Hermann Muthesius (1861), Friedrich August Stüler (1800), Jacques Ignace Hittorff (1792), and Werner March (1894).

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