1772 - 1838
Johann Nepomuk Maelzel (or Mälzel; August 15, 1772 – July 21, 1838) was a German inventor, engineer, and showman, best known for manufacturing a metronome and several music-playing automatons, and displaying a fraudulent chess machine. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Johann Nepomuk Maelzel has received more than 95,016 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Johann Nepomuk Maelzel is the 154th most popular inventor (down from 137th in 2019), the 1,718th most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,532nd in 2019) and the 20th most popular German Inventor.
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Among inventors, Johann Nepomuk Maelzel ranks 154 out of 354. Before him are Robert Ludvigovich Bartini, Mary Anderson, Fausto Veranzio, Hiram Maxim, Johann Nicolaus von Dreyse, and Charles Algernon Parsons. After him are Sequoyah, Christopher Latham Sholes, Paul Baran, Joseph Monier, Uziel Gal, and Charles Martin Hall.
1897 - 1974
HPI: 57.21
Rank: 148
1862 - 1953
HPI: 57.08
Rank: 149
1551 - 1617
HPI: 57.06
Rank: 150
1840 - 1916
HPI: 57.04
Rank: 151
1787 - 1867
HPI: 56.98
Rank: 152
1854 - 1931
HPI: 56.95
Rank: 153
1772 - 1838
HPI: 56.90
Rank: 154
1770 - 1843
HPI: 56.90
Rank: 155
1819 - 1890
HPI: 56.44
Rank: 156
1926 - 2011
HPI: 56.40
Rank: 157
1823 - 1906
HPI: 56.15
Rank: 158
1923 - 2002
HPI: 56.14
Rank: 159
1863 - 1914
HPI: 56.02
Rank: 160
Among people born in 1772, Johann Nepomuk Maelzel ranks 17. Before him are Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, Louis Antoine, Duke of Enghien, Marie Anne Lenormand, Henri de la Rochejaquelein, Prince Louis Ferdinand of Prussia, and Jean-Étienne Dominique Esquirol. After him are Géraud Duroc, Archduke Alexander Leopold of Austria, Anton Friedrich Justus Thibaut, Horace François Bastien Sébastiani de La Porta, Mikhail Speransky, and Tarrare. Among people deceased in 1838, Johann Nepomuk Maelzel ranks 12. Before him are Pierre Louis Dulong, Ivan Kotliarevsky, Johanna Schopenhauer, Ferdinand Ries, Antoine Isaac Silvestre de Sacy, and Bernard Courtois. After him are Bernhard Crusell, Anselme Gaëtan Desmarest, Charles Percier, René Caillié, Black Hawk, and Heinrich Marx.
1772 - 1844
HPI: 62.84
Rank: 11
1772 - 1804
HPI: 61.50
Rank: 12
1772 - 1843
HPI: 58.41
Rank: 13
1772 - 1794
HPI: 57.78
Rank: 14
1772 - 1806
HPI: 57.45
Rank: 15
1772 - 1840
HPI: 57.40
Rank: 16
1772 - 1838
HPI: 56.90
Rank: 17
1772 - 1813
HPI: 56.01
Rank: 18
1772 - 1795
HPI: 55.94
Rank: 19
1772 - 1840
HPI: 55.25
Rank: 20
1772 - 1851
HPI: 54.70
Rank: 21
1772 - 1839
HPI: 54.52
Rank: 22
1772 - 1798
HPI: 54.12
Rank: 23
1785 - 1838
HPI: 58.91
Rank: 6
1769 - 1838
HPI: 58.25
Rank: 7
1766 - 1838
HPI: 58.18
Rank: 8
1784 - 1838
HPI: 57.84
Rank: 9
1758 - 1838
HPI: 57.80
Rank: 10
1777 - 1838
HPI: 57.39
Rank: 11
1772 - 1838
HPI: 56.90
Rank: 12
1775 - 1838
HPI: 56.80
Rank: 13
1784 - 1838
HPI: 55.11
Rank: 14
1764 - 1838
HPI: 54.13
Rank: 15
1799 - 1838
HPI: 53.90
Rank: 16
1767 - 1838
HPI: 52.76
Rank: 17
1777 - 1838
HPI: 52.73
Rank: 18
Among people born in Germany, Johann Nepomuk Maelzel ranks 1,718 out of 6,142. Before him are Frederick II, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel (1720), Matilda of Frisia (1024), Duchess Anna Amalia of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (1739), Andreas Osiander (1498), Max Immelmann (1890), and George, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (1779). After him are Prince Joachim of Prussia (1890), Philipp Franz von Siebold (1796), Prince Charles of Hesse and by Rhine (1809), Henry XIII, Duke of Bavaria (1235), Leopold Gmelin (1788), and Constantin von Tischendorf (1815).
1720 - 1785
HPI: 56.92
Rank: 1,712
1024 - 1044
HPI: 56.92
Rank: 1,713
1739 - 1807
HPI: 56.92
Rank: 1,714
1498 - 1552
HPI: 56.91
Rank: 1,715
1890 - 1916
HPI: 56.90
Rank: 1,716
1779 - 1860
HPI: 56.90
Rank: 1,717
1772 - 1838
HPI: 56.90
Rank: 1,718
1890 - 1920
HPI: 56.89
Rank: 1,719
1796 - 1866
HPI: 56.89
Rank: 1,720
1809 - 1877
HPI: 56.88
Rank: 1,721
1235 - 1290
HPI: 56.86
Rank: 1,722
1788 - 1853
HPI: 56.85
Rank: 1,723
1815 - 1874
HPI: 56.84
Rank: 1,724
Among inventors born in Germany, Johann Nepomuk Maelzel ranks 20. Before him are Theobald Boehm (1794), Alfred Krupp (1812), Hugo Schmeisser (1884), Johann Jacob Schweppe (1740), Heinrich Göbel (1818), and Johann Nicolaus von Dreyse (1787). After him are Uziel Gal (1923), Heinrich Daniel Ruhmkorff (1803), Siegfried Marcus (1831), Peter Henlein (1479), Johann Christoph Denner (1655), and Oskar Barnack (1879).
1794 - 1881
HPI: 59.79
Rank: 14
1812 - 1887
HPI: 59.54
Rank: 15
1884 - 1953
HPI: 58.55
Rank: 16
1740 - 1821
HPI: 57.78
Rank: 17
1818 - 1893
HPI: 57.49
Rank: 18
1787 - 1867
HPI: 56.98
Rank: 19
1772 - 1838
HPI: 56.90
Rank: 20
1923 - 2002
HPI: 56.14
Rank: 21
1803 - 1877
HPI: 55.71
Rank: 22
1831 - 1898
HPI: 55.60
Rank: 23
1479 - 1542
HPI: 55.38
Rank: 24
1655 - 1707
HPI: 55.30
Rank: 25
1879 - 1936
HPI: 54.42
Rank: 26