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Gottlieb Daimler

1834 - 1900

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Gottlieb Wilhelm Daimler (German: [ˈɡɔtliːp ˈdaɪmlɐ]; 17 March 1834 – 6 March 1900) was a German engineer, industrial designer and industrialist born in Schorndorf (Kingdom of Württemberg, a federal state of the German Confederation), in what is now Germany. He was a pioneer of internal-combustion engines and automobile development. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gottlieb Daimler has received more than 1,239,444 page views. His biography is available in 70 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 69 in 2019). Gottlieb Daimler is the 2nd most popular engineer (up from 4th in 2019), the 88th most popular biography from Germany (up from 109th in 2019) and the most popular German Engineer.

Gottlieb Daimler is most famous for inventing the first gasoline-powered car.

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  • 70

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  • 15.31

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  • 2.71

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Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, Gottlieb Daimler ranks 2 out of 389. Before him are Gustave Eiffel. After him are Mikhail Kalashnikov, Zhuge Liang, Wernher von Braun, Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot, Frederick Winslow Taylor, Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, Sergei Korolev, Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban, Umberto Nobile, and André Citroën.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1834, Gottlieb Daimler ranks 3. Before him are Dmitri Mendeleev, and Edgar Degas. After him are Ernst Haeckel, John Venn, Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi, William Morris, Duchess Helene in Bavaria, Léon Walras, August Weismann, Amilcare Ponchielli, and Jan Neruda. Among people deceased in 1900, Gottlieb Daimler ranks 3. Before him are Friedrich Nietzsche, and Oscar Wilde. After him are Max Müller, Wilhelm Steinitz, Umberto I of Italy, Ivan Aivazovsky, Robert Luther, John Ruskin, Vladimir Solovyov, Étienne Lenoir, and Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Gottlieb Daimler ranks 88 out of 7,253. Before him are Arminius (-17), Peter III of Russia (1728), Helmut Kohl (1930), William Herschel (1738), Jürgen Habermas (1929), and Heinz Guderian (1888). After him are Heinrich Schliemann (1822), Carl von Clausewitz (1780), Wilhelm Keitel (1882), Nicholas of Cusa (1401), Joachim von Ribbentrop (1893), and Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor (1050).

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Among ENGINEERS In Germany

Among engineers born in Germany, Gottlieb Daimler ranks 1. After him are Otto Lilienthal (1848), Fritz Todt (1891), August Horch (1868), Willy Messerschmitt (1898), Albert Göring (1895), Hugo Junkers (1859), Felix Wankel (1902), Ernst Heinkel (1888), Arthur Scherbius (1878), Kurt Gerstein (1905), and Walter Dornberger (1895).

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