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Friedrich Bayer

1825 - 1880

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Friedrich Bayer (born Friedrich Beyer, 6 June 1825 in Barmen now Wuppertal – 6 May 1880 in Würzburg) was the founder of what would become Bayer, a German chemical and pharmaceutical company. He founded the dyestuff factory Friedrich Bayer along with Johann Friedrich Weskott in 1863 in Elberfeld, a flourishing city in the early industrialised region of the Wuppertal or Wupper Valley. Friedrich Bayer changed the spelling of his surname from Beyer in his early twenties, due to the publicity gained by a fraudulent merchant from Leipzig bearing the same name. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Friedrich Bayer has received more than 245,740 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Friedrich Bayer is the 274th most popular businessperson (down from 245th in 2019), the 2,527th most popular biography from Germany (down from 2,211th in 2019) and the 33rd most popular German Businessperson.

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  • 250k

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  • 54.84

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.30

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.03

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among BUSINESSPEOPLE

Among businesspeople, Friedrich Bayer ranks 274 out of 847. Before him are Hans Riegel, Bob Iger, Jack Welch, Pavel Tretyakov, Robert Nobel, and Theo Albrecht. After him are Madame Clicquot Ponsardin, Herbert Hainer, Melinda Gates, Hetty Green, Arkady Rotenberg, and Leonardo Del Vecchio.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1825, Friedrich Bayer ranks 36. Before him are Conrad Ferdinand Meyer, Práxedes Mateo Sagasta, Archduchess Auguste Ferdinande of Austria, Émile Ollivier, Friedrich von Schmidt, and Charles Lavigerie. After him are Julius Oppert, Charles Joshua Chaplin, Alexander Mozhaysky, Jassim bin Mohammed Al Thani, Benedetto Cairoli, and Karl Möbius. Among people deceased in 1880, Friedrich Bayer ranks 24. Before him are Peter Johann Nepomuk Geiger, Ole Bull, Arnold Ruge, Sunanda Kumariratana, James Craig Watson, and Oliver Winchester. After him are Jules Favre, Raden Saleh, Sanford Robinson Gifford, Luís Alves de Lima e Silva, Duke of Caxias, Robert Fortune, and Constantin Hansen.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Friedrich Bayer ranks 2,527 out of 7,253. Before him are Charles Galton Darwin (1887), Duchess Marie Elisabeth of Saxony (1610), Heinrich Marx (1777), Karl Amadeus Hartmann (1905), Prince Josias of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld (1737), and Otto Baum (1911). After him are Christian Augustus, Count Palatine of Sulzbach (1622), Augustus, Duke of Saxe-Weissenfels (1614), Princess Friederike Luise of Prussia (1714), Barthel Beham (1502), Konrad von Feuchtwangen (1230), and Princess Maria Ludwiga Theresia of Bavaria (1872).

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE In Germany

Among businesspeople born in Germany, Friedrich Bayer ranks 33. Before him are John Jacob Astor (1763), Karl Baedeker (1801), Karl Rapp (1882), Dietmar Hopp (1940), Hans Riegel (1923), and Theo Albrecht (1922). After him are Herbert Hainer (1954), Ida Straus (1849), Bertha Krupp (1886), Johanna Quandt (1926), Henry E. Steinway (1797), and Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler (1884).

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