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Jacques Ignace Hittorff

1792 - 1867

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Jacques Ignace Hittorff or, in German, Jakob Ignaz Hittorff (German: [ˈjaːkop ˈɪɡnaːts ˈhɪtɔʁf], French: [ʒak iɲas itɔʁf]) (Cologne, 20 August 1792 – 25 March 1867) was a German-born French architect who combined advanced structural use of new materials, notably cast iron, with conservative Beaux-Arts classicism in a career that spanned the decades from the Restoration to the Second Empire. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Jacques Ignace Hittorff is the 282nd most popular architect (up from 291st in 2019), the 3,050th most popular biography from Germany (up from 3,204th in 2019) and the 29th most popular German Architect.

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Among ARCHITECTS

Among architects, Jacques Ignace Hittorff ranks 282 out of 518. Before him are Salomon de Bray, Salomon de Brosse, Marian Spychalski, Josep Maria Jujol, Kengo Kuma, and William Chambers. After him are Cedric Gibbons, Bernardo Buontalenti, Werner March, Nicolai Eigtved, Helmut Jahn, and Juan Bautista de Toledo.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1792, Jacques Ignace Hittorff ranks 40. Before him are Manuel Oribe, Andrés de Santa Cruz, Mangas Coloradas, Roderick Murchison, Prince Bernhard of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, and Nodira. After him are Thomas Romney Robinson, Moritz Hauptmann, Lev Perovski, Ferdinand, Hereditary Prince of Denmark, José Joaquín de Herrera, and Christian Gmelin. Among people deceased in 1867, Jacques Ignace Hittorff ranks 35. Before him are Takasugi Shinsaku, Jean Pierre Flourens, Armand Trousseau, Mirko Petrović-Njegoš, August Böckh, and Prince Maximilian of Wied-Neuwied. After him are Juan Álvarez, Ramón Castilla, Simon Sechter, Leopoldo O'Donnell, 1st Duke of Tetuán, Georgi Sava Rakovski, and Santiago Derqui.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Jacques Ignace Hittorff ranks 3,052 out of 7,253. Before him are Louis, Prince of Hesse and by Rhine (1908), Eberhard IV, Count of Württemberg (1388), Charles I, Margrave of Baden-Baden (1425), Adolph Frank (1834), Konrad Duden (1829), and Stefan Heym (1913). After him are Alojs Andritzki (1914), Karl Wittgenstein (1847), Friedrich Hirzebruch (1927), Solomon Perel (1925), Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler (1884), and Friedrich Freiherr Kress von Kressenstein (1870).

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Among ARCHITECTS In Germany

Among architects born in Germany, Jacques Ignace Hittorff ranks 29. Before him are Friedrich von Schmidt (1825), Adolf Meyer (1881), Hermann Tilke (1954), Nicodemus Tessin the Elder (1615), Hermann Muthesius (1861), and Friedrich August Stüler (1800). After him are Werner March (1894), Helmut Jahn (1940), Friedrich von Gärtner (1791), Dominikus Zimmermann (1685), Ernst Ziller (1837), and Ernst May (1886).

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