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Heinrich Gerber

1832 - 1912

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Heinrich Gerber (Johann Gottfried Heinrich Gerber; November 18, 1832 in Hof, Bavaria – January 3, 1912 in Munich, Germany) was a German civil engineer and inventor of the Gerber girder. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Heinrich Gerber has received more than 1,409 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Heinrich Gerber is the 317th most popular inventor, the 4,438th most popular biography from Germany and the 41st most popular German Inventor.

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Heinrich Gerber ranks 317 out of 426. Before him are Wilson Greatbatch, Joseph Engelberger, Roland Moreno, Peter Carl Goldmark, Ernst Alexanderson, and Walter Bruch. After him are Thomas Wedgwood, Victor Hasselblad, Kálmán Kandó, Tabitha Babbitt, Patricia Bath, and Jay Miner.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1832, Heinrich Gerber ranks 78. Before him are Lucretia Garfield, Nikiforos Lytras, Juan Montalvo, Victor Meirelles, Eugenio Montero Ríos, and Caroline Harrison. After him are Zsófia Torma, Boston Corbett, Adalbert Krueger, Horatio Alger, Léon Gautier, and William Thomas Blanford. Among people deceased in 1912, Heinrich Gerber ranks 105. Before him are Daniel Burnham, Dmitry Mamin-Sibiryak, Felix Dahn, Anna Filosofova, Iakob Gogebashvili, and Pencho Slaveykov. After him are Ahmet Mithat, Ferdinand Zirkel, Aleksey Suvorin, Ferdinand Monoyer, Patricio Escobar, and Ludvig Holstein-Ledreborg.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Heinrich Gerber ranks 4,438 out of 7,253. Before him are Landgravine Caroline of Hesse-Rotenburg (1714), Christian Wilhelm Allers (1857), Ludwig Goldbrunner (1908), Markus Grosskopf (1965), Ilona Slupianek (1956), and Boris Papandopulo (1906). After him are Prince William of Baden (1792), Otto Heckmann (1901), Kurt Beck (1949), Ernst Stromer (1871), Magdalena Sibylla of Holstein-Gottorp (1631), and Kurt Maetzig (1911).

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Among INVENTORS In Germany

Among inventors born in Germany, Heinrich Gerber ranks 41. Before him are Fritz von Opel (1899), Ricardo Wolf (1887), Adolf Martens (1850), Franz Xaver Gabelsberger (1789), Wilhelm Bauer (1822), and Walter Bruch (1908). After him are Didi Senft (1952), Albrecht Berblinger (1770), Andy Bechtolsheim (1955), and Karl Jatho (1873).

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