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John A. Roebling

1806 - 1869

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John Augustus Roebling (born Johann August Röbling; June 12, 1806 – July 22, 1869) was a German-born American civil engineer. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John A. Roebling has received more than 744,674 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). John A. Roebling is the 118th most popular engineer (down from 117th in 2019), the 2,150th most popular biography from Germany (down from 2,111th in 2019) and the 13th most popular German Engineer.

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    Languages Editions (L)

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    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.64

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, John A. Roebling ranks 118 out of 389. Before him are François Laurent d'Arlandes, Pedro Navarro, Count of Oliveto, Joseph M. Juran, Sergei Khrushchev, Alexandre Darracq, and Georgy Shpagin. After him are Álvaro del Portillo, Alexander Lippisch, Claude Dornier, Herman Potočnik, Eduard Totleben, and Erik Dahlbergh.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1806, John A. Roebling ranks 23. Before him are Johan Vilhelm Snellman, Louis III, Grand Duke of Hesse, Pierre Guillaume Frédéric le Play, Duchenne de Boulogne, Juan Crisóstomo Arriaga, and Antoine Wiertz. After him are William, Duke of Brunswick, Karl Friedrich Mohr, Juliette Drouet, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Lionel Kieseritzky, and Infanta Ana de Jesus Maria of Braganza. Among people deceased in 1869, John A. Roebling ranks 22. Before him are Alexander Dargomyzhsky, Alexandrine Tinné, Roger Fenton, Carl Gustav Carus, Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby, and Princess Maria Carolina of Bourbon-Two Sicilies. After him are Christian August II, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg, Giulia Grisi, Carl Reichenbach, Constantine, Prince of Hohenzollern-Hechingen, Jean Léonard Marie Poiseuille, and Wilhelm, Duke of Urach.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, John A. Roebling ranks 2,150 out of 7,253. Before him are Thomas C. Südhof (1955), Countess Caroline of Nassau-Saarbrücken (1704), Friedrich Ferdinand von Beust (1809), Michael Lippert (1897), Rudolf Rocker (1873), and Horst-Dieter Höttges (1943). After him are Jürgen Schult (1960), William Dieterle (1893), Dieter Müller (1954), Princess Louise of Hesse-Darmstadt (1757), Bruno Lüdke (1908), and Henrich Focke (1890).

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Among ENGINEERS In Germany

Among engineers born in Germany, John A. Roebling ranks 13. Before him are Hugo Junkers (1859), Felix Wankel (1902), Ernst Heinkel (1888), Arthur Scherbius (1878), Kurt Gerstein (1905), and Walter Dornberger (1895). After him are Alexander Lippisch (1894), Claude Dornier (1884), Christian Otto Mohr (1835), Erich Topp (1914), Gustave Whitehead (1874), and Franz Reuleaux (1829).

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