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Josiah Warren

1798 - 1874

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Josiah Warren (; June 26, 1798 – April 14, 1874) was an American utopian socialist, American individualist anarchist, individualist philosopher, polymath, social reformer, inventor, musician, printer and author. He is regarded by anarchist historians like James J. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Josiah Warren has received more than 270,510 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia. Josiah Warren is the 116th most popular inventor (up from 138th in 2019), the 1,397th most popular biography from United States (up from 1,908th in 2019) and the 28th most popular American Inventor.

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Josiah Warren ranks 116 out of 426Before him are Gaston Glock, Lee de Forest, Léon Theremin, Alfred Krupp, Zacharias Janssen, and Charles-Émile Reynaud. After him are André Michelin, Hiram Maxim, Theobald Boehm, Percy Spencer, Josef Ressel, and Johann Jacob Schweppe.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1798, Josiah Warren ranks 10Before him are Pedro I of Brazil, Alexandra Feodorovna, Giacomo Leopardi, Jules Michelet, Charles Albert of Sardinia, and Marie-Caroline of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, Duchess of Berry. After him are František Palacký, Grand Duke Michael Pavlovich of Russia, August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben, Franz Ernst Neumann, Alexander Gorchakov, and Archduchess Clementina of Austria. Among people deceased in 1874, Josiah Warren ranks 9Before him are Jules Michelet, Adolphe Quetelet, François Guizot, David Strauss, Johann Philipp Reis, and Archduke Karl Ferdinand of Austria. After him are Marià Fortuny, Maria Teresa, Princess of Beira, Johann Friedrich Franz Burgmüller, Charles Gleyre, August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben, and Moritz von Jacobi.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Josiah Warren ranks 1,397 out of 20,380Before him are Charles Chaplin Jr. (1925), Dwight Schultz (1947), John Brown (1800), James Abbott McNeill Whistler (1834), Dirk Benedict (1945), and Don Cherry (1936). After him are Alfred G. Gilman (1941), William Lipscomb (1919), Solomon Northup (1808), Jack Dempsey (1895), Robert A. Dahl (1915), and Sarah Knauss (1880).

Among INVENTORS In United States

Among inventors born in United States, Josiah Warren ranks 28Before him are Ray Tomlinson (1941), Elisha Otis (1811), Leo Fender (1909), Robert Noyce (1927), Jacque Fresco (1916), and Lee de Forest (1873). After him are Hiram Maxim (1840), Percy Spencer (1894), Mary Anderson (1862), Elisha Gray (1835), Richard Jordan Gatling (1818), and Robert Moog (1934).