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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 216,874 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Friedrich Bayer is the 245th most popular businessperson (down from 195th in 2019), the 2,213th most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,984th in 2019) and the 26th most popular German Businessperson.

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  • 54.75

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.06

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.78

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE

Among businesspeople, Friedrich Bayer ranks 245 out of 601. Before him are Julius Maggi, David Armstrong-Jones, 2nd Earl of Snowdon, Katharine Graham, David Packard, John C. Bogle, and Kirk Kerkorian. After him are John Jacob Astor, Beate Uhse-Rotermund, Ludvig Nobel, Marc Rich, Charles Pathé, and Françoise Bettencourt Meyers.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1825, Friedrich Bayer ranks 30. Before him are Mór Jókai, George Phillips Bond, Hervé, Archduchess Auguste Ferdinande of Austria, Camilo Castelo Branco, and Práxedes Mateo Sagasta. After him are Conrad Ferdinand Meyer, Charles Joshua Chaplin, Iwakura Tomomi, Karl Möbius, Charles Lavigerie, and Friedrich von Schmidt. Among people deceased in 1880, Friedrich Bayer ranks 19. Before him are John Sutter, Oliver Winchester, Édouard Séguin, Sunanda Kumariratana, Bettino Ricasoli, and Léon Cogniet. After him are Ole Bull, Arnold Ruge, Peter Johann Nepomuk Geiger, Constantin Hansen, Princess Marie of Hesse-Kassel, and Jules Favre.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Friedrich Bayer ranks 2,213 out of 6,142. Before him are Wolfgang Lotz (1921), Oskar von Hutier (1857), Louis, Prince of Hesse and by Rhine (1908), Sibylle of Cleves (1512), Ernest Augustus I, Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (1688), and Ulrich Mühe (1953). After him are Leopold IV, Duke of Anhalt (1794), John Jacob Astor (1763), August Hermann Francke (1663), Louis VII, Duke of Bavaria (1368), Tielman Susato (1500), and Ludwig Uhland (1787).

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE In Germany

Among businesspeople born in Germany, Friedrich Bayer ranks 26. Before him are Karl Baedeker (1801), Axel Springer (1912), Maurice de Hirsch (1831), Friedrich Alfred Krupp (1854), Carl Laemmle (1867), and Hans Wilsdorf (1881). After him are John Jacob Astor (1763), Hans Riegel (1923), Karl Rapp (1882), Henry E. Steinway (1797), Theo Albrecht (1922), and Bertha Krupp (1886).

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