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Alois Senefelder

1771 - 1834

Alois Senefelder

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 129,556 page views. His biography is available in 34 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 33 in 2019). Alois Senefelder is the 86th most popular inventor (down from 76th in 2019), the 95th most popular biography from Czechia (down from 74th in 2019) and the 2nd 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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130k
Page Views (PV)
62.38
Historical Popularity Index (HPI)
34
Languages Editions (L)
8.50
Effective Languages (L*)
2.37
Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Alois Senefelder ranks 86 out of 354. Before him are Henry Bessemer, Momofuku Ando, Ray Tomlinson, Sakichi Toyoda, Bi Sheng, and Franz Reichelt. After him are John Harrison, Alphonse Bertillon, Cornelis Drebbel, Daniel Swarovski, Abraham-Louis Breguet, and Étienne-Jules Marey.

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Henry Bessemer
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HPI: 62.68
Rank: 80
Momofuku Ando
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HPI: 62.67
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Ray Tomlinson
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HPI: 62.59
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Bi Sheng
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HPI: 62.40
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Alois Senefelder
1771 - 1834
HPI: 62.38
Rank: 86
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HPI: 62.34
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Alphonse Bertillon
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HPI: 62.31
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HPI: 62.27
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Daniel Swarovski
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HPI: 61.97
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Abraham-Louis Breguet
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HPI: 61.91
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HPI: 61.88
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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1771, Alois Senefelder ranks 11. Before him are Emperor Kōkaku, Antoine-Jean Gros, Julie Clary, Ernest Augustus, King of Hanover, Karl Philipp, Prince of Schwarzenberg, and Princess Louise Auguste of Denmark. After him are Jean-Andoche Junot, Marie François Xavier Bichat, Mungo Park, Laskarina Bouboulina, Ferdinando Paer, and Frederick William, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel. Among people deceased in 1834, Alois Senefelder ranks 9. Before him are Pedro I of Brazil, Friedrich Schleiermacher, Joseph Marie Jacquard, Sunjo of Joseon, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Fath-Ali Shah Qajar. After him are William Carey, Karl Ludwig Harding, Husein Gradaščević, François-Adrien Boieldieu, Jacques Balmat, and Infanta Maria Francisca of Braganza.

Others Born in 1771

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Emperor Kōkaku
1771 - 1840
HPI: 68.08
Rank: 5
Antoine-Jean Gros
1771 - 1835
HPI: 65.69
Rank: 6
Julie Clary
1771 - 1845
HPI: 65.38
Rank: 7
Ernest Augustus, King of Hanover
1771 - 1851
HPI: 64.43
Rank: 8
Karl Philipp, Prince of Schwarzenberg
1771 - 1820
HPI: 63.20
Rank: 9
Princess Louise Auguste of Denmark
1771 - 1843
HPI: 63.13
Rank: 10
Alois Senefelder
1771 - 1834
HPI: 62.38
Rank: 11
Jean-Andoche Junot
1771 - 1813
HPI: 62.35
Rank: 12
Marie François Xavier Bichat
1771 - 1802
HPI: 61.57
Rank: 13
Mungo Park
1771 - 1806
HPI: 61.45
Rank: 14
Laskarina Bouboulina
1771 - 1825
HPI: 60.76
Rank: 15
Ferdinando Paer
1771 - 1839
HPI: 56.33
Rank: 16
Frederick William, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel
1771 - 1815
HPI: 56.27
Rank: 17