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Augustin Ehrensvärd

1710 - 1772

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Field Marshal count Augustin Ehrensvärd (25 September 1710 – 4 October 1772) was a Swedish military officer, military architect, artist, creator of the Suomenlinna (Sveaborg) fortress, Svartholm fortress and the Swedish archipelago fleet. He was born in Fullerö Castle, Barkarö and died in the village of Saris, Mynämäki. In 1747, he was chosen by king Frederick I of Sweden to design and construct a maritime fortress near Helsinki in Finland, then a part of the Kingdom of Sweden. Building the fortress of Sveaborg became a life's work for Ehrensvärd, who kept expanding the island fortress until his death in 1772. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Augustin Ehrensvärd is the 298th most popular architect (up from 313th in 2019), the 464th most popular biography from Sweden (up from 473rd in 2019) and the 4th most popular Swedish Architect.

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Among ARCHITECTS

Among architects, Augustin Ehrensvärd ranks 298 out of 518. Before him are Boris Iofan, Thom Mayne, Sedefkar Mehmed Agha, Pierre Cuypers, Dominikus Zimmermann, and Sophia Hayden. After him are Vlado Milunić, Lin Huiyin, Konstantin Thon, Pierre-François-Léonard Fontaine, Trdat, and Jakob Prandtauer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1710, Augustin Ehrensvärd ranks 23. Before him are Johann II Bernoulli, Louise Julie de Mailly-Nesle, Paolo Renier, Princess Amalia of Nassau-Dietz, Princess Luise Dorothea of Saxe-Meiningen, and Adam Gottlob Moltke. After him are Charles Simon Favart, Johann Georg Pinsel, John Ellis, and Paul Möhring. Among people deceased in 1772, Augustin Ehrensvärd ranks 15. Before him are Gerard van Swieten, Princess Mary of Great Britain, Jean-Joseph de Mondonville, Marc-Joseph Marion du Fresne, John Canton, and Charles Pinot Duclos. After him are Frederick III, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg, Count Johann Hartwig Ernst von Bernstorff, Pyotr Saltykov, Shah Jahan III, Alexander Kokorinov, and Madhavrao I.

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Augustin Ehrensvärd ranks 464 out of 1,879. Before him are Victoria Silvstedt (1974), Bengt Gustavsson (1928), Johan Andreas Murray (1740), Wilhelm Peterson-Berger (1867), Robert Themptander (1844), and August Nilsson (1872). After him are Victoria Benedictsson (1850), Margot Wallström (1954), Knut Kroon (1906), Erik Ivar Fredholm (1866), Martin Lundström (1918), and Anna Q. Nilsson (1888).

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Among ARCHITECTS In Sweden

Among architects born in Sweden, Augustin Ehrensvärd ranks 4. Before him are Gunnar Asplund (1885), Nicodemus Tessin the Younger (1654), and William Chambers (1723). After him are Carl Fredrik Adelcrantz (1716), Ragnar Östberg (1866), Sven Markelius (1889), and Ferdinand Boberg (1860).

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