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Josef Ressel

1793 - 1857

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Joseph Ludwig Franz Ressel (Czech: Josef Ludvík František Ressel; June 29, 1793 – October 9, 1857) was a Czech-German forester and inventor, who designed one of the first working ship's propellers. Ressel was born in Chrudim, Bohemia then part of the Holy Roman Empire ruled by the Habsburg monarchy, which became part of the Austrian Empire in 1804. His father Anton Hermann Ressel was a native German speaker, and his mother Marie Anna Konvičková was a native Czech speaker. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Josef Ressel has received more than 79,454 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Josef Ressel is the 121st most popular inventor (up from 125th in 2019), the 160th most popular biography from Czechia (down from 153rd in 2019) and the 4th most popular Czech Inventor.

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Josef Ressel ranks 121 out of 426. Before him are Charles-Émile Reynaud, Josiah Warren, André Michelin, Hiram Maxim, Theobald Boehm, and Percy Spencer. After him are Johann Jacob Schweppe, Henri Giffard, Taiichi Ohno, Nikolai Kardashev, Hugo Schmeisser, and Samuel Crompton.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1793, Josef Ressel ranks 7. Before him are Ferdinand I of Austria, Victor of Aveyron, Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve, Juan Manuel de Rosas, Ján Kollár, and Karl Ludwig Hencke. After him are Maria Teresa, Princess of Beira, Michel Chasles, Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller, Constantine Kanaris, James Dunlop, and Karl Lachmann. Among people deceased in 1857, Josef Ressel ranks 18. Before him are Francis Beaufort, Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff, Pierre-Jean de Béranger, Louis Jacques Thénard, Johan Christian Dahl, and Mangal Pandey. After him are Alcide d'Orbigny, Marquis de Custine, George Cayley, Théodolinde de Beauharnais, Achille Devéria, and Hinrich Lichtenstein.

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, Josef Ressel ranks 160 out of 1,200. Before him are Jan Koller (1973), Franz Benda (1709), Josef Čapek (1887), Hugo Meisl (1881), Věra Chytilová (1929), and Victor Adler (1852). After him are Rafael Kubelík (1914), Maria Theresa of Austria-Este (1849), Emilie Schindler (1907), Julius Fučík (1872), František Palacký (1798), and Christoph Schönborn (1945).

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Among INVENTORS In Czechia

Among inventors born in Czechia, Josef Ressel ranks 4. Before him are Alois Senefelder (1771), Daniel Swarovski (1862), and Franz Reichelt (1879). After him are Prokop Diviš (1698), and František Křižík (1847).

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