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Alois Senefelder

1771 - 1834

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Johann Alois Senefelder (6 November 1771 – 26 February 1834) was a German actor and playwright who invented the printing technique of lithography in the 1790s. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alois Senefelder has received more than 137,462 page views. His biography is available in 35 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 34 in 2019). Alois Senefelder is the 78th most popular inventor (up from 86th in 2019), the 94th most popular biography from Czechia (up from 95th in 2019) and the most popular Czech Inventor.

Alois Senefelder is most famous for inventing the process of lithography, a printing technique that uses an oil-based ink to create an image on paper.

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    Languages Editions (L)

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    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.14

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Alois Senefelder ranks 78 out of 426. Before him are Les Paul, George Eastman, Claude Chappe, Charles K. Kao, Kōnosuke Matsushita, and Jacques de Vaucanson. After him are Ray Tomlinson, Bi Sheng, Thomas Savery, Sakichi Toyoda, Henry Bessemer, and James Hargreaves.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1771, Alois Senefelder ranks 11. Before him are Emperor Kōkaku, Julie Clary, Antoine-Jean Gros, Princess Louise Auguste of Denmark, Karl Philipp, Prince of Schwarzenberg, and Ernest Augustus, King of Hanover. After him are Marie François Xavier Bichat, Laskarina Bouboulina, Mungo Park, Jean-Andoche Junot, Gotthelf Fischer von Waldheim, and Mikhail Miloradovich. Among people deceased in 1834, Alois Senefelder ranks 9. Before him are Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette, Friedrich Schleiermacher, Joseph Marie Jacquard, Sunjo of Joseon, Fath-Ali Shah Qajar, and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. After him are William Carey, François-Adrien Boieldieu, Husein Gradaščević, Jacques Balmat, Karl Ludwig Harding, and Infanta Maria Francisca of Braganza.

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, Alois Senefelder ranks 94 out of 1,200. Before him are Jiří Menzel (1938), Petr Pavel (1961), Archduchess Anna of Austria (1528), Kurt Knispel (1921), Johann Stamitz (1717), and Prokop the Great (1380). After him are Jobst of Moravia (1351), Henry of Bohemia (1265), Pavel Nedvěd (1972), Marie, Princess of Liechtenstein (1940), Balthasar Neumann (1687), and Vratislaus II of Bohemia (1035).

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Among INVENTORS In Czechia

Among inventors born in Czechia, Alois Senefelder ranks 1. After him are Daniel Swarovski (1862), Franz Reichelt (1879), Josef Ressel (1793), Prokop Diviš (1698), and František Křižík (1847).

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