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Joseph Pilates

1883 - 1967

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Joseph Hubertus Pilates (9 December 1883 – 9 October 1967) was a German physical trainer, writer, and inventor. He is credited with inventing and promoting the Pilates method of physical fitness. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Joseph Pilates has received more than 1,416,688 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Joseph Pilates is the 106th most popular inventor (up from 107th in 2019), the 1,080th most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,045th in 2019) and the 12th most popular German Inventor.

Joseph Pilates is most famous for the Pilates Method, which is a form of exercise that focuses on strengthening the core muscles and improving posture.

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  • 66.55

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  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.02

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.14

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Joseph Pilates ranks 106 out of 426. Before him are Momofuku Ando, Robert Noyce, Louis Le Prince, Jacque Fresco, John Harrison, and Edmund Cartwright. After him are Johann Philipp Reis, Clément Ader, Abraham-Louis Breguet, Gaston Glock, Lee de Forest, and Léon Theremin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1883, Joseph Pilates ranks 44. Before him are Giovanni Messe, Zaifeng, Prince Chun, Ivan Meštrović, Döme Sztójay, Alexander Vasilyevich Alexandrov, and Marie Laurencin. After him are Gino Severini, Georgios Papanikolaou, Gottfried Feder, Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, Max Linder, and Adolph Joffe. Among people deceased in 1967, Joseph Pilates ranks 44. Before him are Harald Quandt, Ejnar Hertzsprung, Vladimir Bartol, Violeta Parra, Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco, and Otis Redding. After him are Abdel Hakim Amer, Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden, Luigi Tenco, Anthony Mann, Hugo Gernsback, and Forough Farrokhzad.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Joseph Pilates ranks 1,080 out of 7,253. Before him are Prince Alexander of Hesse and by Rhine (1823), Margaret II, Countess of Hainaut (1311), Frederick Francis II, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1823), Oskar Schlemmer (1888), Viktor Lutze (1890), and Charles Louis, Hereditary Prince of Baden (1755). After him are Erich Auerbach (1892), Pierre Littbarski (1960), Duchess Cecilie of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1886), Johann Philipp Reis (1834), Arthur Scherbius (1878), and Albert Speer (1934).

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Among INVENTORS In Germany

Among inventors born in Germany, Joseph Pilates ranks 12. Before him are Konrad Zuse (1910), Wilhelm Maybach (1846), Hans Lippershey (1570), Karl Drais (1785), Emile Berliner (1851), and Adam Opel (1837). After him are Johann Philipp Reis (1834), Alfred Krupp (1812), Theobald Boehm (1794), Johann Jacob Schweppe (1740), Hugo Schmeisser (1884), and Uziel Gal (1923).

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