GAME DESIGNER

Klaus Teuber

1952 - 2023

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Klaus Wilhelm Heinrich Teuber (25 June 1952 – 1 April 2023) was a German board game designer best known as the creator of Catan. Originally working as a dental technician, he began designing games first as a hobby then as a full-time career. Four of his games won the prestigious Spiel des Jahres (Game of the Year) award: Barbarossa (1988), Adel Verpflichtet (1990), Drunter und Drüber (1991) and The Settlers of Catan (1995). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Klaus Teuber has received more than 491,740 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Klaus Teuber is the 12th most popular game designer (up from 18th in 2019).

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  • 490k

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  • 54.69

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.49

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.12

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among GAME DESIGNERS

Among game designers, Klaus Teuber ranks 12 out of 77. Before him are Jeff Kinney, Gunpei Yokoi, Gabe Newell, Satoru Iwata, Satoshi Tajiri, and Lizzie Magie. After him are Sid Meier, Shinji Mikami, Shigesato Itoi, Gary Gygax, Hironobu Sakaguchi, and Toru Iwatani.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1952, Klaus Teuber ranks 157. Before him are Anote Tong, Jean-Dominique Bauby, Per Petterson, Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, Edward Zwick, and Sergei Stepashin. After him are Samir Geagea, Ahmed Nazif, Geraldo Alckmin, Mitch Pileggi, Hugo Broos, and Bernard Stiegler. Among people deceased in 2023, Klaus Teuber ranks 213. Before him are Robert Hanssen, Karol J. Bobko, Dominique Colonna, Viktor Mamatov, Juraj Jakubisko, and Telesphore Toppo. After him are Mary L. Cleave, Ahmad Jamal, Frances Sternhagen, María Kodama, Aleksandar Matanović, and Ingrid Haebler.

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