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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. He was the first secretary-general of the Congrès International d'Architecture Moderne, and taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Harvard University, and the ETH-Zurich. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Sigfried Giedion is the 250th most popular historian (down from 220th in 2019), the 386th most popular biography from Czechia (down from 355th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Czech Historian.

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Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Sigfried Giedion ranks 250 out of 561. Before him are Johann Nikolaus von Hontheim, Clifford Edmund Bosworth, Muhammad Aufi, Rudolph Rummel, Natalie Zemon Davis, and Miguel Ángel Ayuso Guixot. After him are Guglielmo Ferrero, Charles Rollin, Iryna Melnykova, Richard G. Hovannisian, Hisham ibn al-Kalbi, and Heinrich Graetz.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1888, Sigfried Giedion ranks 121. Before him are Marcel L'Herbier, Ramón Gómez de la Serna, Archduchess Isabella of Austria, Josef Beran, Hans Graf von Sponeck, and Friedrich Wolf. After him are Joachim Lemelsen, Árpád Szakasits, Francisco Canaro, Viktor Kingissepp, Bruce Fraser, 1st Baron Fraser of North Cape, and Anna Q. Nilsson. Among people deceased in 1968, Sigfried Giedion ranks 105. Before him are Toivo Mikael Kivimäki, Hans Cramer, Walter Tewksbury, Tallulah Bankhead, Louis, Prince of Hesse and by Rhine, and Gholamreza Takhti. After him are Herbert Read, Chana Orloff, Maurice Larrouy, Gunnar Ekelöf, Armando Castellazzi, and Lina Stern.

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, Sigfried Giedion ranks 386 out of 1,200. Before him are Franz Krommer (1759), Joseph von Sonnenfels (1732), Viktor Dyk (1877), Jana Brejchová (1940), Johann Georg Christian, Prince of Lobkowicz (1686), and Eduard Nápravník (1839). After him are Mikoláš Aleš (1852), Karel Píč (1920), Archduchess Maria Theresa of Austria (1862), Bretislav III (1200), Maria Restituta Kafka (1894), and Soběslav II, Duke of Bohemia (1128).

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Among HISTORIANS In Czechia

Among historians born in Czechia, Sigfried Giedion ranks 3. Before him are Max Dvořák (1874), and Saul Friedländer (1932). After him are Yehuda Bauer (1926), Miroslav Hroch (1932), Anton Heinrich Springer (1825), and Zdeněk Nejedlý (1878).

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