INVENTOR

Friedrich Zander

1887 - 1933

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Georg Arthur Constantin Friedrich Zander (also Tsander, Russian: Фри́дрих Арту́рович Ца́ндер, tr. Fridrikh Arturovich Tsander; Latvian: Frīdrihs Canders, 23 August [O.S. 11 August] 1887 – 28 March 1933), was a Baltic German pioneer of rocketry and spaceflight in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Friedrich Zander has received more than 70,023 page views. His biography is available in 35 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 32 in 2019). Friedrich Zander is the 175th most popular inventor (up from 182nd in 2019), the 40th most popular biography from Latvia (up from 43rd in 2019) and the most popular Latvian Inventor.

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    Languages Editions (L)

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Friedrich Zander ranks 175 out of 426. Before him are Lagâri Hasan Çelebi, Guillaume Amontons, Johann Nepomuk Maelzel, Reginald Fessenden, Charles Cros, and Matthew Boulton. After him are Joseph Monier, Philo Farnsworth, Henrich Focke, James Dyson, Georges Claude, and Juan de la Cierva, 1st Count of la Cierva.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1887, Friedrich Zander ranks 90. Before him are Wilhelm Kube, Mario Roatta, Octave Lapize, Louis Jouvet, Lil Dagover, and Josef Lada. After him are Jack Phillips, Hanns Kerrl, Hitoshi Ashida, Annette Kellermann, Roscoe Arbuckle, and François Faber. Among people deceased in 1933, Friedrich Zander ranks 41. Before him are Anagarika Dharmapala, Yamamoto Gonnohyōe, Mary Parker Follett, Carl Correns, Haim Arlosoroff, and Nitobe Inazō. After him are Hasan Prishtina, Roscoe Arbuckle, Henri Duparc, Pierre Paul Émile Roux, Sen Katayama, and Hermann von François.

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In Latvia

Among people born in Latvia, Friedrich Zander ranks 40 out of 323. Before him are Wilhelm Kettler (1574), Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz (1751), Jukums Vācietis (1873), Oswald Külpe (1862), Laimdota Straujuma (1951), and Viktors Arājs (1910). After him are Friedrich Kettler (1569), Max Erwin von Scheubner-Richter (1884), Solomon Mikhoels (1890), Barbara von Krüdener (1764), Maria Amalia of Courland (1653), and Ferdynand Antoni Ossendowski (1876).

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Among INVENTORS In Latvia

Among inventors born in Latvia, Friedrich Zander ranks 1. After him are Jacob W. Davis (1831), and Walter Zapp (1905).

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