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John Jacob Astor

1763 - 1848

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John Jacob Astor (born Johann Jakob Astor; July 17, 1763 – March 29, 1848) was a German-born American businessman, merchant, real estate mogul, and investor. Astor made his fortune mainly in a fur trade monopoly, by exporting opium into the Chinese Empire (Manchu China), and by investing in real estate in or around New York City. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John Jacob Astor has received more than 2,883,000 page views. His biography is available in 41 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 39 in 2019). John Jacob Astor is the 219th most popular businessperson (up from 246th in 2019), the 2,089th most popular biography from Germany (up from 2,213th in 2019) and the 27th most popular German Businessperson.

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    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.36

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  • 5.10

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among BUSINESSPEOPLE

Among businesspeople, John Jacob Astor ranks 219 out of 847. Before him are Marcel Bich, Rinat Akhmetov, David Armstrong-Jones, 2nd Earl of Snowdon, Julius Maggi, Ghislaine Maxwell, and François-Henri Pinault. After him are Jesse Livermore, Andrew Grove, Karl Baedeker, Karl Rapp, Steve Fossett, and Sheldon Adelson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1763, John Jacob Astor ranks 23. Before him are Étienne Méhul, Franz Danzi, Simon Mayr, Pierre Gaspard Chaumette, François de Charette, and François-Joseph Talma. After him are Frederick, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg, Domenico Dragonetti, Fyodor Rostopchin, José Bonifácio de Andrada, Emich Carl, 2nd Prince of Leiningen, and Hugues-Bernard Maret, duc de Bassano. Among people deceased in 1848, John Jacob Astor ranks 25. Before him are Joseph Mohr, James Dunlop, Branwell Brontë, Archduchess Maria Leopoldine of Austria-Este, Joseph Gerhard Zuccarini, and Annette von Droste-Hülshoff. After him are Horace Wells, Princess Sophia of the United Kingdom, Keisai Eisen, Christen Købke, Duchess Amelia of Württemberg, and Pellegrino Rossi.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, John Jacob Astor ranks 2,089 out of 7,253. Before him are Erich Brandenberger (1892), Klaus Augenthaler (1957), Wolfgang Reitherman (1909), Johann Friedrich von Brandt (1802), Franz Aepinus (1724), and Bernd Rosemeyer (1909). After him are Mario Gómez (1985), Princess Elisabeth Sophie of Saxe-Altenburg (1619), Maria Riva (1924), Erich Juskowiak (1926), Princess Elisabeth of Saxe-Altenburg (1865), and Wolfgang of Regensburg (924).

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE In Germany

Among businesspeople born in Germany, John Jacob Astor ranks 27. Before him are Maurice de Hirsch (1831), Carl Laemmle (1867), Dieter Schwarz (1939), Friedrich Krupp (1787), Friedrich Alfred Krupp (1854), and Hans Wilsdorf (1881). After him are Karl Baedeker (1801), Karl Rapp (1882), Dietmar Hopp (1940), Hans Riegel (1923), Theo Albrecht (1922), and Friedrich Bayer (1825).

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