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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 695,127 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). John A. Roebling is the 119th most popular engineer (down from 118th in 2019), the 2,113th most popular biography from Germany (down from 2,084th in 2019) and the 16th most popular German Engineer.

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  • 25

    Languages Editions (L)

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  • 2.93

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Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, John A. Roebling ranks 119 out of 323. Before him are Alexander Cunningham, François Laurent d'Arlandes, Alexander Lodygin, Robert Stephenson, Álvaro del Portillo, and Hertha Ayrton. After him are Flaminio Bertoni, Alexandre Darracq, Ferdinand Alexander Porsche, Borys Paton, Franz Reuleaux, and Erik Dahlbergh.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1806, John A. Roebling ranks 24. Before him are Charles Gleyre, Antoine Wiertz, Otto Wilhelm Hermann von Abich, William, Duke of Brunswick, Johan Vilhelm Snellman, and Karl Friedrich Mohr. After him are Alphonse Pyramus de Candolle, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Juliette Drouet, Lionel Kieseritzky, Infanta Ana de Jesus Maria of Braganza, and Johann Kaspar Mertz. Among people deceased in 1869, John A. Roebling ranks 21. Before him are Princess Maria Carolina of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, Roger Fenton, Alexander Dargomyzhsky, Carl Gustav Carus, Carl Reichenbach, and Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby. After him are Christian August II, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg, Wilhelm, Duke of Urach, Julian Fontana, Mehmed Fuad Pasha, Alexandrine Tinné, and Constantine, Prince of Hohenzollern-Hechingen.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, John A. Roebling ranks 2,113 out of 6,142. Before him are Marianne Brandt (1893), John Ernest IV, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld (1658), Helmut Lachenmann (1935), Ernst Albrecht (1930), William VI, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel (1629), and Dietrich, Count of Oldenburg (1390). After him are Carl Correns (1864), Christian I, Count Palatine of Birkenfeld-Bischweiler (1598), Friedlieb Ferdinand Runge (1795), Princess Maria Amalia of Saxony (1757), Princess Amalie of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1848), and Nico Rosberg (1985).

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Among ENGINEERS In Germany

Among engineers born in Germany, John A. Roebling ranks 16. Before him are Kurt Gerstein (1905), Arthur Scherbius (1878), Walter Dornberger (1895), Claude Dornier (1884), Erich Topp (1914), and Christian Otto Mohr (1835). After him are Ferdinand Alexander Porsche (1935), Franz Reuleaux (1829), Gustave Whitehead (1874), Alexander Lippisch (1894), Hellmuth Walter (1900), and Anton Flettner (1885).

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