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Carl Gotthard Langhans

1732 - 1808

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Carl Gotthard Langhans (15 December 1732 – 1 October 1808) was a Prussian master builder and royal architect. His churches, palaces, grand houses, interiors, city gates and theatres in Silesia (now Poland), Berlin, Potsdam and elsewhere belong to the earliest examples of Neoclassical architecture in Germany. His best-known work is the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, national symbol of today’s Germany and German reunification in 1989/90. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Carl Gotthard Langhans is the 117th most popular architect (up from 118th in 2019), the 277th most popular biography from Poland (down from 254th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Polish Architect.

Langhans was a German architect who is most famous for designing the Berlin Wall.

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Among ARCHITECTS

Among architects, Carl Gotthard Langhans ranks 117 out of 518. Before him are Leo von Klenze, Eileen Gray, Ricardo Bofill, George Gilbert Scott, Rafael Moneo, and Auguste Perret. After him are César Pelli, Minoru Yamasaki, Peter Eisenman, Hannes Meyer, Amenhotep, son of Hapu, and Eliel Saarinen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1732, Carl Gotthard Langhans ranks 16. Before him are Johann Christoph Adelung, John Dickinson, Adélaïde of France, Abbas III, Richard Arkwright, and Frederick II Eugene, Duke of Württemberg. After him are Peter Forsskål, Hieronymus von Colloredo, Warren Hastings, Nevil Maskelyne, František Brixi, and John Blair Jr.. Among people deceased in 1808, Carl Gotthard Langhans ranks 8. Before him are Mustafa IV, Christian VII of Denmark, Archduchess Maria Elisabeth of Austria, John Dickinson, Johan Christian Fabricius, and Hubert Robert. After him are Alexei Grigoryevich Orlov, Pierre Jean Georges Cabanis, Princess Marie of Baden, Friedrich Kasimir Medikus, Paul Wranitzky, and Ove Høegh-Guldberg.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Carl Gotthard Langhans ranks 277 out of 1,694. Before him are Hermann Grassmann (1809), Henryk Szeryng (1918), Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff (1848), Władysław I Herman (1043), Jerzy Skolimowski (1938), and Jan Kochanowski (1530). After him are Stanisław Ryłko (1945), Miguel Najdorf (1910), Hans Kammler (1901), Kurt Masur (1927), Adam Stefan Sapieha (1867), and Dieter Wisliceny (1911).

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Among ARCHITECTS In Poland

Among architects born in Poland, Carl Gotthard Langhans ranks 3. Before him are Erich Mendelsohn (1887), and Daniel Libeskind (1946). After him are Georg Wenzeslaus von Knobelsdorff (1699), Marian Spychalski (1906), Friedrich Gilly (1772), Wojciech Zabłocki (1930), Max Berg (1870), and Elizabeth Diller (1958).

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