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Heinrich Daniel Ruhmkorff

German inventor

1803 - 1877

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His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2024). Heinrich Daniel Ruhmkorff is the 187th most popular inventor (down from 184th in 2024), the 2,340th most popular biography from Germany (down from 2,272nd in 2019) and the 26th most popular German Inventor.

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Among Inventors

Among inventors, Heinrich Daniel Ruhmkorff ranks 187 out of 426. Before him are Matthew Boulton, Lagâri Hasan Çelebi, Gunther von Hagens, William Murdoch, Johann Nicolaus von Dreyse, and Fausto Veranzio. After him are Johann Jacob Schweppe, Arnold Orville Beckman, Lucien Olivier, Larry Sanger, Sequoyah, and Johann Christoph Denner.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1803, Heinrich Daniel Ruhmkorff ranks 30. Before him are Robert Stephenson, Friedrich von Amerling, Muhammad IV of Morocco, John Ericsson, Karl Gützlaff, and Peter Chanel. After him are Henry Darcy, John Sutter, Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps, Heinrich Wilhelm Dove, Alexander von Nordmann, and Henri Herz. Among people deceased in 1877, Heinrich Daniel Ruhmkorff ranks 25. Before him are Kido Takayoshi, Yaqub Beg, Louis III, Grand Duke of Hesse, Jung Bahadur Rana, Princess Marie of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, and Philipp Veit. After him are Constantine Kanaris, Friedrich Graf von Wrangel, Antoni Patek, Pōmare IV, Karl Friedrich von Steinmetz, and Prince Charles of Hesse and by Rhine.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Heinrich Daniel Ruhmkorff ranks 2,340 out of 7,253. Before him are Sigfrid Karg-Elert (1877), Wols (1913), Michael Lippert (1897), Heinrich Gustav Reichenbach (1823), Ludwig Klages (1872), and F. C. S. Schiller (1864). After him are Ferdinand Christian Baur (1792), Princess Frederica Charlotte of Prussia (1767), Friedrich Loeffler (1852), Heinrich Eberbach (1895), Johann Jacob Schweppe (1740), and Erich Mühsam (1878).

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Among Inventors In Germany

Among inventors born in Germany, Heinrich Daniel Ruhmkorff ranks 26. Before him are Peter Henlein (1479), Heinrich Göbel (1818), Uziel Gal (1923), Henrich Focke (1890), Artur Fischer (1919), and Johann Nicolaus von Dreyse (1787). After him are Johann Jacob Schweppe (1740), Johann Christoph Denner (1655), Max Skladanowsky (1863), Helmut Gröttrup (1916), Carl Wilhelm Siemens (1823), and Oskar Barnack (1879).

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