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Franz Xaver Gabelsberger

1789 - 1849

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Franz Xaver Gabelsberger (9 February 1789, Munich - 4 January 1849, Munich) was a German stenographer; the inventor of Gabelsberger shorthand. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Franz Xaver Gabelsberger has received more than 23,944 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. Franz Xaver Gabelsberger is the 277th most popular inventor, the 3,571st most popular biography from Germany and the 38th most popular German Inventor.

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Franz Xaver Gabelsberger ranks 277 out of 354Before him are Lester Allan Pelton, Adolf Martens, Alexander P. de Seversky, L. L. Langstroth, Edward Lawry Norton, and Štefan Banič. After him are Paul von Jankó, John Wilkinson, Thomas Wedgwood, Ivan Kulibin, André Blondel, and Jack Northrop.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1789, Franz Xaver Gabelsberger ranks 33Before him are Bernhard Severin Ingemann, Gamzat-bek, Henry Pottinger, Menachem Mendel Schneersohn, Friedrich Silcher, and Leona Vicario. After him are Richard Bright, Martín Javier Mina y Larrea, Thaddeus Bulgarin, Carlos María de Alvear, Peter Joseph Lenné, and Manuel Gómez Pedraza. Among people deceased in 1849, Franz Xaver Gabelsberger ranks 46Before him are Dolley Madison, François Habeneck, Andrés Manuel del Río, Jan Svatopluk Presl, Goffredo Mameli, and Pavel Chichagov. After him are Filippo Paulucci, Marc Isambard Brunel, Mariano Paredes, Maria Edgeworth, William Etty, and Edward Hicks.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Franz Xaver Gabelsberger ranks 3,571 out of 6,142Before him are Emil von Sauer (1862), Joseph Vilsmaier (1939), Princess Ida of Anhalt-Bernburg-Schaumburg-Hoym (1804), Anton Ackermann (1905), Paul Reinecke (1872), and Hillel Furstenberg (1935). After him are Heinrich Zimmer (1890), Cosmas Damian Asam (1686), Edgar Hilsenrath (1926), Nicolaus von Amsdorf (1483), Frederick I, Landgrave of Hesse-Homburg (1585), and Rudolf Schlechter (1872).

Among INVENTORS In Germany

Among inventors born in Germany, Franz Xaver Gabelsberger ranks 38Before him are Artur Fischer (1919), Carl Wilhelm Siemens (1823), Eugen Langen (1833), Fritz von Opel (1899), Ottmar Mergenthaler (1854), and Adolf Martens (1850). After him are Walter Bruch (1908), Albrecht Berblinger (1770), Karl Jatho (1873), and Andy Bechtolsheim (1955).