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Johann Nepomuk Maelzel

1772 - 1838

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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

Among inventors, Johann Nepomuk Maelzel ranks 154 out of 354Before 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.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1772, Johann Nepomuk Maelzel ranks 17Before 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 12Before 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.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Johann Nepomuk Maelzel ranks 1,718 out of 6,142Before 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).

Among INVENTORS In Germany

Among inventors born in Germany, Johann Nepomuk Maelzel ranks 20Before 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).