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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 1,173,308 page views. His biography is available in 69 different languages on Wikipedia. Gottlieb Daimler is the 4th most popular engineer (down from 2nd in 2019), the 109th most popular biography from Germany (down from 93rd in 2019) and the most popular German Engineer.

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

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Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, Gottlieb Daimler ranks 4 out of 323. Before him are Gustave Eiffel, Mikhail Kalashnikov, and Wernher von Braun. After him are Zhuge Liang, Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot, Frederick Winslow Taylor, Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, Sergei Korolev, Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban, André Citroën, and Anatoly Dyatlov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1834, Gottlieb Daimler ranks 4. Before him are Dmitri Mendeleev, Edgar Degas, and Ernst Haeckel. After him are John Venn, William Morris, Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi, Léon Walras, Duchess Helene in Bavaria, August Weismann, Amilcare Ponchielli, and James Abbott McNeill Whistler. 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, Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, John Ruskin, Vladimir Solovyov, Étienne Lenoir, and Wilhelm Liebknecht.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Gottlieb Daimler ranks 109 out of 6,142. Before him are Clara Schumann (1819), Carl von Clausewitz (1780), Carl Maria von Weber (1786), Nikolaus Otto (1832), Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor (1368), and Willy Brandt (1913). After him are Baron Munchausen (1720), Carl Orff (1895), Leopold Mozart (1719), Erich Honecker (1912), Ernst Röhm (1887), and Frederick III, German Emperor (1831).

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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), Willy Messerschmitt (1898), Albert Göring (1895), August Horch (1868), Hugo Junkers (1859), Felix Wankel (1902), Ernst Heinkel (1888), Kurt Gerstein (1905), Arthur Scherbius (1878), and Walter Dornberger (1895).

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