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Johann Friedrich Böttger

1682 - 1719

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Johann Friedrich Böttger (also Böttcher or Böttiger; 4 February 1682 – 13 March 1719) was a German alchemist. Böttger was born in Schleiz and died in Dresden. He is normally credited with being the first European to discover the secret of the creation of hard-paste porcelain in 1708, but it has also been claimed that English manufacturers or Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus produced porcelain first. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Johann Friedrich Böttger has received more than 121,136 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Johann Friedrich Böttger is the 141st most popular businessperson (up from 143rd in 2019), the 1,317th most popular biography from Germany and the 15th most popular German Businessperson.

Böttger was a German chemist and alchemist who discovered the secret of making porcelain.

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Among businesspeople, Johann Friedrich Böttger ranks 141 out of 847. Before him are Chaleo Yoovidhya, Massimo Moratti, Lee Kun-hee, Alisher Usmanov, Phil Knight, and Elizabeth Arden. After him are Masayoshi Son, Asa Griggs Candler, Giovanni Battista Caproni, John D. Rockefeller Jr., Joe Weider, and Eugène Schueller.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1682, Johann Friedrich Böttger ranks 7. Before him are Charles XII of Sweden, Louis, Duke of Burgundy, Calico Jack, Bartholomew Roberts, Şehsuvar Sultan, and Giovanni Battista Morgagni. After him are Jacopo Amigoni, Princess Albertina Frederica of Baden-Durlach, William VIII, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel, Jan van Huysum, Claudine Guérin de Tencin, and Roger Cotes. Among people deceased in 1719, Johann Friedrich Böttger ranks 7. Before him are Françoise d'Aubigné, Marquise de Maintenon, Jean-Baptiste de La Salle, John Flamsteed, Benjamin Hornigold, Michel Rolle, and Yamamoto Tsunetomo. After him are Adam Ludwig Lewenhaupt, Marie Louise Élisabeth d'Orléans, Boris Sheremetev, Arnold Houbraken, Joseph Addison, and Farrukhsiyar.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Johann Friedrich Böttger ranks 1,317 out of 7,253. Before him are Franz, Duke of Bavaria (1933), Christiane F. (1962), Friedrich Dollmann (1882), Heinz Lammerding (1905), Karl-Otto Apel (1922), and Leonhart Fuchs (1501). After him are Sebastian Kneipp (1821), John George II, Elector of Saxony (1613), Walter Christaller (1893), Gerhard Ludwig Müller (1947), Max Amann (1891), and Anne Christine of Sulzbach, Princess of Piedmont (1704).

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE In Germany

Among businesspeople born in Germany, Johann Friedrich Böttger ranks 15. Before him are Robert Bosch (1861), Paul Reuter (1816), Bertha Benz (1849), Nathan Mayer Rothschild (1777), Uli Hoeneß (1952), and James Mayer de Rothschild (1792). After him are Amschel Mayer Rothschild (1773), Melitta Bentz (1873), Karl Albrecht (1920), Salomon Mayer von Rothschild (1774), Axel Springer (1912), and Maurice de Hirsch (1831).

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