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Jozef Murgaš

1864 - 1929

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Jozef Murgaš (English Joseph Murgas) (17 February 1864 – 11 May 1929) was a Slovak inventor, architect, botanist, painter and Roman Catholic priest. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jozef Murgaš has received more than 62,826 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Jozef Murgaš is the 340th most popular inventor (down from 314th in 2019), the 189th most popular biography from Slovakia (down from 154th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Slovak Inventor.

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Jozef Murgaš ranks 340 out of 426Before him are Henri Fabre, Giovanni Caselli, David Dunbar Buick, Joseph Bramah, Georges Beuchat, and An Wang. After him are Joseph Timchenko, John Philip Holland, George Washington Gale Ferris Jr., Hary Gunarto, Didi Senft, and Joy Mangano.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1864, Jozef Murgaš ranks 144Before him are José Pardo y Barreda, Alberto Nepomuceno, Hanna Pauli, Stanley Maude, William S. Hart, and Willoughby Hamilton. After him are Edwin Hedley, F. C. S. Schiller, Friedrich Gustav Piffl, Eugenio Tosi, Artur Văitoianu, and Elinor Glyn. Among people deceased in 1929, Jozef Murgaš ranks 117Before him are Caroline Rémy de Guebhard, Marie Hankel, Ted Wilde, Columbano Bordalo Pinheiro, David Dunbar Buick, and Giacomo Bresadola. After him are Eugenio Tosi, André Messager, Franciszek Rychnowski, Otto Liebe, Edward Carpenter, and Robert Ridgway.

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In Slovakia

Among people born in Slovakia, Jozef Murgaš ranks 189 out of 418Before him are Ludwig Schlesinger (1864), Ján Hollý (1785), Ján Zachara (1928), Vladimir Oravsky (1947), Stanislav Seman (1952), and Martin Benka (1888). After him are Ferenc Sidó (1923), Jozef Chovanec (1960), Béla Illés (1895), Ľuboš Micheľ (1968), Margita Figuli (1909), and Ján Kubiš (1952).

Among INVENTORS In Slovakia

Among inventors born in Slovakia, Jozef Murgaš ranks 4Before him are Wolfgang von Kempelen (1734), Slavoljub Eduard Penkala (1871), and Aurel Stodola (1859). After him are Kálmán Tihanyi (1897).