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Karl Wittgenstein

1847 - 1913

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Karl Otto Clemens Wittgenstein (8 April 1847 – 20 January 1913) was a German-born Austrian steel tycoon. A friend of Andrew Carnegie, with whom he was often compared, at the end of the 19th century he controlled an effective monopoly on steel and iron resources within the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and had by the 1890s acquired one of the largest fortunes in the world. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Karl Wittgenstein has received more than 165,639 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Karl Wittgenstein is the 359th most popular businessperson, the 3,412th most popular biography from Germany and the 42nd most popular German Businessperson.

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  • 15

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.10

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.90

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among BUSINESSPEOPLE

Among businesspeople, Karl Wittgenstein ranks 359 out of 847. Before him are Gennady Timchenko, Haim Saban, Oleg Deripaska, Siegfried Bing, Uğur Şahin, and Allen Klein. After him are Emil Rathenau, John D. Rockefeller III, Maxwell Perkins, Nino Cerruti, Thomas Blake Glover, and Gustav Wiederkehr.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1847, Karl Wittgenstein ranks 61. Before him are Remus von Woyrsch, Oscar Swahn, Bertha Wegmann, Alexander Lodygin, William Edward Ayrton, and Kálmán Mikszáth. After him are Émile Faguet, Domenico Ferrata, Arthur Kinnaird, 11th Lord Kinnaird, Richard Bowdler Sharpe, Chiquinha Gonzaga, and Charles Renard. Among people deceased in 1913, Karl Wittgenstein ranks 53. Before him are Hjalmar Johansen, Seth Carlo Chandler, Kâmil Pasha, Paul Friedrich August Ascherson, Nazım Pasha, and Victor Henri Rochefort, Marquis de Rochefort-Luçay. After him are Mikoláš Aleš, Heinrich Martin Weber, Étienne Laspeyres, Léon Teisserenc de Bort, Edwin Klebs, and Marie Popelin.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Karl Wittgenstein ranks 3,412 out of 7,253. Before him are Hillel Furstenberg (1935), Caesarius of Heisterbach (1180), Curt von Bardeleben (1861), Kurt Moll (1938), Aribert Reimann (1936), and Peter Winter (1754). After him are Emil Rathenau (1838), Albertus Pictor (1440), Otto Hölder (1859), Caspar Peucer (1525), Jacob, Margrave of Baden-Baden (1407), and Joshua Kimmich (1995).

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE In Germany

Among businesspeople born in Germany, Karl Wittgenstein ranks 42. Before him are Bertha Krupp (1886), Johanna Quandt (1926), Henry E. Steinway (1797), Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler (1884), Martin Winterkorn (1947), and Siegfried Bing (1838). After him are Emil Rathenau (1838), Susanne Klatten (1962), Albert Ballin (1857), Elizabeth Christ Trump (1880), Adolf Merckle (1934), and Peter Thiel (1967).

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