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Emil Škoda

1839 - 1900

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Emil Ritter von Škoda (Czech: Emil rytíř Škoda; 18 November 1839 – 8 August 1900) was a Bohemian engineer and industrialist, founder of Škoda Works, the predecessor of today's Škoda Auto and Škoda Transportation. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Emil Škoda has received more than 118,545 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Emil Škoda is the 45th most popular engineer (up from 47th in 2019), the 119th most popular biography from Czechia (down from 113th in 2019) and the most popular Czech Engineer.

Emil Škoda was a Czech engineer and the founder of the Škoda Works, a large industrial company that was one of the largest arms manufacturers in the world during World War I. He is most famous for his work in engineering and manufacturing.

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  • 24

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    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.67

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Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, Emil Škoda ranks 45 out of 323Before him are John Ambrose Fleming, Alexander Wienerberger, Ildefons Cerdà, Edward A. Murphy Jr., Sergey Ilyushin, and Ernst Heinkel. After him are Banū Mūsā, Henry Gantt, William John Macquorn Rankine, Charles George Gordon, Bjarne Stroustrup, and Gustaf de Laval.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1839, Emil Škoda ranks 14Before him are George Armstrong Custer, Josiah Willard Gibbs, Karl Theodor, Duke in Bavaria, Josephine Cochrane, Nikolay Przhevalsky, and Machado de Assis. After him are Princess Cecilie of Baden, Nikolay Bobrikov, Yoshitoshi, Théodule-Armand Ribot, Josef Rheinberger, and Konstantin Makovsky. Among people deceased in 1900, Emil Škoda ranks 19Before him are John Sherman, Nicolas Chauvin, Isaac Levitan, Stephen Crane, Francis, Duke of Teck, and Mary Kingsley. After him are Osman Nuri Pasha, Armand David, Princess Josephine of Baden, José Maria de Eça de Queirós, François d'Orléans, Prince of Joinville, and Frederic Edwin Church.

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, Emil Škoda ranks 119 out of 973Before him are Ivana Trump (1949), G. W. Pabst (1885), Joanna of Austria, Grand Duchess of Tuscany (1547), Elizabeth of Bohemia (1292), Ivan Lendl (1960), and Princess Sophie of Hohenberg (1901). After him are Adalbert Stifter (1805), Rudolf Weigl (1883), Agnes of Bohemia (1211), Oldřich Nejedlý (1909), Otto Wichterle (1913), and Jan Kubiš (1913).

Among ENGINEERS In Czechia

Among engineers born in Czechia, Emil Škoda ranks 1After him are Karl von Terzaghi (1883), Alfred Neubauer (1891), Eugen Sänger (1905), and Franciszek Rychnowski (1850).