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Alexander Lodygin

1847 - 1923

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Alexander Nikolayevich Lodygin, known after immigration to US as Alexandre de Lodyguine (Russian: Александр Николаевич Лодыгин; 18 October 1847 – 16 March 1923) was a Russian electrical engineer and inventor, one of the inventors of the incandescent light bulb. Alexander Nikolayevich Lodygin was born in Stenshino village, Tambov Governorate, Russian Empire. His parents were of a very old and noble family (descendants of Andrei Kobyla like Romanovs), but of very moderate means. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alexander Lodygin has received more than 101,556 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Alexander Lodygin is the 115th most popular engineer (up from 184th in 2019), the 704th most popular biography from Russia (up from 985th in 2019) and the 16th most popular Russian Engineer.

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Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, Alexander Lodygin ranks 115 out of 323Before him are Adrian Newey, Pedro Navarro, Count of Oliveto, Viktor Kaplan, Pierre Clostermann, Alexander Cunningham, and François Laurent d'Arlandes. After him are Robert Stephenson, Álvaro del Portillo, Hertha Ayrton, John A. Roebling, Flaminio Bertoni, and Alexandre Darracq.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1847, Alexander Lodygin ranks 32Before him are John Bates Clark, Princess Margherita of Bourbon-Parma, Galileo Ferraris, Jacob Schiff, Princess Leopoldina of Brazil, and Philipp, Prince of Eulenburg. After him are Adolf von Hildebrand, Robert Fuchs, Camille Doncieux, Sidney Sonnino, Nakano Takeko, and Frits Thaulow. Among people deceased in 1923, Alexander Lodygin ranks 41Before him are Théophile Steinlen, Georg Luger, William Ernest, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, Zhang Xun, Vatroslav Jagić, and Albert Leo Schlageter. After him are Hertha Ayrton, Bonar Law, Charles Dupuy, Alexandre Ribot, Charles de Freycinet, and Damat Ferid Pasha.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Alexander Lodygin ranks 704 out of 3,262Before him are Rudolf Lipschitz (1832), Bella Akhmadulina (1937), Pavel Tsitsianov (1754), Maxim Shostakovich (1938), Oleg Popov (1930), and Philipp, Prince of Eulenburg (1847). After him are Lev Rudnev (1885), Nikolai Rezanov (1764), Kirill Kondrashin (1914), Duchess Magdalene Sibylle of Prussia (1586), Yuri Norstein (1941), and Otto Braun (1872).

Among ENGINEERS In Russia

Among engineers born in Russia, Alexander Lodygin ranks 16Before him are Alexander Sergeyevich Yakovlev (1906), Ivan Sechenov (1829), Mikhail Gurevich (1892), Nikolai Polikarpov (1892), Mikhail Mil (1909), and Fedor Tokarev (1871). After him are Yevgeny Dragunov (1920), Vitaly Abalakov (1906), Alexey Sudayev (1912), Georgy Shpagin (1897), Alexei Tupolev (1925), and Mikhail Yangel (1911).