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August Horch

1868 - 1951

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August Horch (12 October 1868 – 3 February 1951) was a German engineer and automobile pioneer, the founder of the manufacturing giant that eventually became Audi. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of August Horch has received more than 414,342 page views. His biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 32 in 2019). August Horch is the 25th most popular engineer (up from 26th in 2019), the 596th most popular biography from Germany (up from 621st in 2019) and the 4th most popular German Engineer.

August Horch was a German engineer and car designer who founded the company that would later become Audi.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 33

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 9.73

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.15

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, August Horch ranks 25 out of 389. Before him are José Echegaray, Hans Albert Einstein, Jack Kilby, Jiro Horikoshi, Andrei Tupolev, and Artem Mikoyan. After him are Willy Messerschmitt, Abram Petrovich Gannibal, Philo of Byzantium, Lennart Torstensson, Hermann Oberth, and Albert Göring.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1868, August Horch ranks 25. Before him are Gaston Leroux, Gustav Meyrink, Huo Yuanjia, Gertrude Bell, Robert Falcon Scott, and Dietrich Eckart. After him are Felix Hoffmann, Vittorio Monti, Edmond Rostand, Scott Joplin, Henrietta Swan Leavitt, and Charles Maurras. Among people deceased in 1951, August Horch ranks 13. Before him are Abdullah I of Jordan, Wilhelm, German Crown Prince, René Guénon, Arnold Sommerfeld, Otto Fritz Meyerhof, and Hermann Broch. After him are Otto Ohlendorf, Alfred Hugenberg, Maxim Litvinov, Prince Carl, Duke of Västergötland, Sinclair Lewis, and Amélie of Orléans.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, August Horch ranks 596 out of 7,253. Before him are August Wilhelm Schlegel (1767), Martin Heinrich Klaproth (1743), Ludwig Tieck (1773), August Bebel (1840), Heinrich Brüning (1885), and Karl Gebhardt (1897). After him are Willy Messerschmitt (1898), Fritz Walter (1920), Bruno Bauer (1809), Polykarp Kusch (1911), Felix Hoffmann (1868), and Hans-Dieter Flick (1965).

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Among ENGINEERS In Germany

Among engineers born in Germany, August Horch ranks 4. Before him are Gottlieb Daimler (1834), Otto Lilienthal (1848), and Fritz Todt (1891). After him are Willy Messerschmitt (1898), Albert Göring (1895), Hugo Junkers (1859), Felix Wankel (1902), Ernst Heinkel (1888), Arthur Scherbius (1878), Kurt Gerstein (1905), and Walter Dornberger (1895).

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