INVENTOR

Karl Drais

1785 - 1851

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Karl Freiherr von Drais (full name: Karl Friedrich Christian Ludwig Freiherr Drais von Sauerbronn; 29 April 1785 – 10 December 1851) was a noble German forest official and significant inventor in the Biedermeier period. He was born and died in Karlsruhe. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Karl Drais has received more than 367,447 page views. His biography is available in 46 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 45 in 2019). Karl Drais is the 50th most popular inventor (down from 46th in 2019), the 411th most popular biography from Germany (down from 348th in 2019) and the 9th most popular German Inventor.

Karl Drais is most famous for inventing the first bicycle.

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    Languages Editions (L)

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    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.56

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Karl Drais ranks 50 out of 426. Before him are Konrad Zuse, Wilhelm Maybach, John Herschel, Hans Lippershey, Willis Carrier, and Herman Hollerith. After him are William G. Morgan, Douglas Engelbart, James Naismith, Emile Berliner, Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot, and Louis Renault.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1785, Karl Drais ranks 4. Before him are Louis XVII of France, Mahmud II, and Jacob Grimm. After him are Alessandro Manzoni, Bettina von Arnim, Lin Zexu, Claude-Louis Navier, Thomas De Quincey, Prince Ferdinand of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Pierre Louis Dulong, and John James Audubon. Among people deceased in 1851, Karl Drais ranks 7. Before him are Hans Christian Ørsted, Marie Thérèse of France, J. M. W. Turner, Mary Shelley, Louis Daguerre, and James Fenimore Cooper. After him are Jean-de-Dieu Soult, Petar II Petrović-Njegoš, Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi, Princess Augusta of Bavaria, Ernest Augustus, King of Hanover, and Manuel Godoy.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Karl Drais ranks 411 out of 7,253. Before him are Fanny Mendelssohn (1805), Maria Alexandrovna (1824), Otto Fritz Meyerhof (1884), Carl von Ossietzky (1889), Paul Hausser (1880), and Helmuth von Moltke the Younger (1848). After him are Anna Magdalena Bach (1701), Louise Mountbatten (1889), Traudl Junge (1920), Matthias Jakob Schleiden (1804), Robert Ley (1890), and Harald zur Hausen (1936).

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Among INVENTORS In Germany

Among inventors born in Germany, Karl Drais ranks 9. Before him are Nikolaus Otto (1832), Werner von Siemens (1816), Karl Ferdinand Braun (1850), Konrad Zuse (1910), Wilhelm Maybach (1846), and Hans Lippershey (1570). After him are Emile Berliner (1851), Adam Opel (1837), Joseph Pilates (1883), Johann Philipp Reis (1834), Alfred Krupp (1812), and Theobald Boehm (1794).

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