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Johann Nicolaus von Dreyse

1787 - 1867

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Johann Nicolaus von Dreyse (20 November 1787 – 9 December 1867) was a German firearms inventor and manufacturer. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Johann Nicolaus von Dreyse has received more than 63,379 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Johann Nicolaus von Dreyse is the 162nd most popular inventor (down from 152nd in 2019), the 2,010th most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,703rd in 2019) and the 21st most popular German Inventor.

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Johann Nicolaus von Dreyse ranks 162 out of 426. Before him are Heinrich Göbel, Fausto Veranzio, Mikhail Dolivo-Dobrovolsky, Garrett Morgan, William Murdoch, and Hovannes Adamian. After him are Royal Rife, Angelo Moriondo, Lucien Olivier, Siegfried Marcus, Édouard Branly, and Elihu Thomson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1787, Johann Nicolaus von Dreyse ranks 18. Before him are Alexander Sergeyevich Menshikov, Eléonore Denuelle de La Plaigne, Otto von Kotzebue, Edmund Kean, Friedrich Krupp, and Muhammad ibn Ali as-Senussi. After him are Delphine LaLaurie, Ludwig Uhland, Eliza Poe, William Etty, James Weddell, and Christian Ludwig Brehm. Among people deceased in 1867, Johann Nicolaus von Dreyse ranks 23. Before him are Friedlieb Ferdinand Runge, Archduchess Mathilda of Austria, Princess Louise Caroline of Hesse-Kassel, Elias Howe, Théophile-Jules Pelouze, and Giovanni Pacini. After him are Takasugi Shinsaku, Leopoldo O'Donnell, 1st Duke of Tetuán, Miguel Miramón, James Ferguson, Mirko Petrović-Njegoš, and Faustin Soulouque.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Johann Nicolaus von Dreyse ranks 2,010 out of 7,253. Before him are Peter Cornelius (1824), Eduard Rüppell (1794), Violante Beatrice of Bavaria (1673), Annette von Droste-Hülshoff (1797), Frederick VI, Margrave of Baden-Durlach (1617), and Agnes of Hesse (1527). After him are Hans Hartwig von Beseler (1850), William VI, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel (1629), Ernest II, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg (1745), Anna Dorothea Therbusch (1721), Margravine Magdalene Sibylle of Brandenburg-Bayreuth (1612), and Julius Jacob von Haynau (1786).

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Among INVENTORS In Germany

Among inventors born in Germany, Johann Nicolaus von Dreyse ranks 21. Before him are Theobald Boehm (1794), Johann Jacob Schweppe (1740), Hugo Schmeisser (1884), Uziel Gal (1923), Peter Henlein (1479), and Heinrich Göbel (1818). After him are Siegfried Marcus (1831), Johann Nepomuk Maelzel (1772), Henrich Focke (1890), Heinrich Daniel Ruhmkorff (1803), Johann Christoph Denner (1655), and Oskar Barnack (1879).

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