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Villard de Honnecourt

1200 - 1250

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Villard de Honnecourt (Wilars dehonecort, Vilars de Honecourt) was a 13th-century artist from Picardy in northern France. He is known to history only through a surviving portfolio or "sketchbook" containing about 250 drawings and designs of a wide variety of subjects. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Villard de Honnecourt is the 44th most popular engineer (down from 35th in 2019), the 1,106th most popular biography from France (down from 1,015th in 2019) and the 5th most popular French Engineer.

Villard de Honnecourt is most famous for being the first person to write a book on architecture.

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Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, Villard de Honnecourt ranks 44 out of 389. Before him are Anthony Fokker, Emil Škoda, Loránd Eötvös, Ildefons Cerdà, Hugo Junkers, and Abram Petrovich Gannibal. After him are Howard H. Aiken, Sergey Ilyushin, Felix Wankel, Pavel Sukhoi, Viktor Bryukhanov, and Bjarne Stroustrup.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1200, Villard de Honnecourt ranks 10. Before him are Dōgen, Qutuz, Ghiyas ud din Balban, Gebre Mesqel Lalibela, Zhang Sanfeng, and Isabella, Countess of Gloucester. After him are Muhammad al-Nasir, Nicholas Kanabos, George III of Georgia, Joan, Countess of Flanders, Canute II of Sweden, and Peire de Montagut. Among people deceased in 1250, Villard de Honnecourt ranks 3. Before him are Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor, and Eric IV of Denmark. After him are Al-Muazzam Turanshah, Robert I, Count of Artois, Eric XI of Sweden, Herman VI, Margrave of Baden, Peter I, Duke of Brittany, Theresa of Portugal, Queen of León, Guillaume de Sonnac, and Alberic of Trois-Fontaines.

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In France

Among people born in France, Villard de Honnecourt ranks 1,106 out of 6,770. Before him are Edmond Debeaumarché (1906), Michèle Morgan (1920), Marie Duplessis (1824), Jules Renard (1864), Christina of Lorraine (1565), and Francis Phoebus of Navarre (1467). After him are Anne Marie d'Orléans (1669), Jeanne Hébuterne (1898), Abel Gance (1889), Jean-Andoche Junot (1771), Charles, Duke of Berry (1686), and Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sévigné (1626).

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Among ENGINEERS In France

Among engineers born in France, Villard de Honnecourt ranks 5. Before him are Gustave Eiffel (1832), Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot (1796), Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban (1633), and André Citroën (1878). After him are Marcel Dassault (1892), Marcel Renault (1872), Henri Farman (1874), Petrus Peregrinus de Maricourt (1240), Paul Cornu (1881), André Courrèges (1923), and François Laurent d'Arlandes (1742).

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