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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 74,997 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Josef Ressel is the 125th most popular inventor (up from 132nd in 2019), the 153rd most popular biography from Czechia (up from 169th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Czech Inventor.

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  • 24

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Josef Ressel ranks 125 out of 354. Before him are Clive Sinclair, John Kay, Richard Jordan Gatling, Jean-Pierre Blanchard, Zénobe Gramme, and Lee de Forest. After him are Gideon Sundback, Elisha Gray, Robert Adler, Hugo Schmeisser, Henri Giffard, and Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1793, Josef Ressel ranks 9. Before him are Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve, Juan Manuel de Rosas, Maria Teresa, Princess of Beira, Karl Ludwig Hencke, Constantine Kanaris, and Ján Kollár. After him are Radama I, Michel Chasles, Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller, Dost Mohammad Khan, Charles Paul de Kock, and Sam Houston. Among people deceased in 1857, Josef Ressel ranks 18. Before him are Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff, Pierre-Jean de Béranger, Johan Christian Dahl, Louis Jacques Thénard, Mangal Pandey, and Louis-Eugène Cavaignac. After him are Alcide d'Orbigny, Princess Henriette of Nassau-Weilburg, George Cayley, Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Marquis de Custine, and Théodolinde de Beauharnais.

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, Josef Ressel ranks 153 out of 973. Before him are Karl I, Prince of Liechtenstein (1569), Ignaz Moscheles (1794), Boleslaus II, Duke of Bohemia (932), Herbert Lom (1917), Barbara Bouchet (1943), and Antonín Zápotocký (1884). After him are Jaroslav Heyrovský (1890), Blanche of Valois (1316), František Plánička (1904), Viktor Ullmann (1898), Archduke Eugen of Austria (1863), and Archduke Charles Stephen of Austria (1860).

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Among INVENTORS In Czechia

Among inventors born in Czechia, Josef Ressel ranks 4. Before him are Franz Reichelt (1879), Alois Senefelder (1771), and Daniel Swarovski (1862).

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