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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 113,006 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia. Johann Friedrich Böttger is the 143rd most popular businessperson (down from 105th in 2019), the 1,317th most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,001st in 2019) 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

Among businesspeople, Johann Friedrich Böttger ranks 143 out of 601. Before him are Armand Peugeot, Iwasaki Yatarō, Ren Zhengfei, Martha Stewart, Lamine Diack, and Reed Hastings. After him are Larry Silverstein, Jawed Karim, Giovanni Battista Caproni, Shibusawa Eiichi, Christina Onassis, and Melitta Bentz.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1682, Johann Friedrich Böttger ranks 6. Before him are Charles XII of Sweden, Louis, Duke of Burgundy, Bartholomew Roberts, Calico Jack, and Giovanni Battista Morgagni. After him are Şehsuvar Sultan, Jacopo Amigoni, Princess Albertina Frederica of Baden-Durlach, Jan van Huysum, William VIII, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel, and Claudine Guérin de Tencin. Among people deceased in 1719, Johann Friedrich Böttger ranks 8. Before him are Jean-Baptiste de La Salle, John Flamsteed, Michel Rolle, Benjamin Hornigold, Yamamoto Tsunetomo, and Marie Louise Élisabeth d'Orléans. After him are Adam Ludwig Lewenhaupt, Joseph Addison, Boris Sheremetev, Farrukhsiyar, Arp Schnitger, and Arnold Houbraken.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Johann Friedrich Böttger ranks 1,317 out of 6,142. Before him are W. G. Sebald (1944), Rudolf Caracciola (1901), August von Kotzebue (1761), Frederick Francis I, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1756), Karl-Otto Apel (1922), and Marian Gold (1954). After him are Brigitte Helm (1906), Franciscus Sylvius (1614), Georg Kaiser (1878), Prince Charles of Prussia (1801), Princess Anna of Prussia (1836), and Otto Kumm (1909).

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE In Germany

Among businesspeople born in Germany, Johann Friedrich Böttger ranks 15. Before him are Jakob Fugger (1459), Paul Reuter (1816), Bertha Benz (1849), Nathan Mayer Rothschild (1777), James Mayer de Rothschild (1792), and Uli Hoeneß (1952). After him are Jawed Karim (1979), Melitta Bentz (1873), Karl Albrecht (1920), Dietmar Hopp (1940), Karl Baedeker (1801), and Axel Springer (1912).

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