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Klaus Teuber

1952 - 2023

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Klaus 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 465,600 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Klaus Teuber is the 18th most popular game designer.

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  • 470k

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  • 47.76

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.56

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.00

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among GAME DESIGNERS

Among game designers, Klaus Teuber ranks 18 out of 56Before him are Sid Meier, Lizzie Magie, Toru Iwatani, Shigesato Itoi, Shinji Mikami, and Hironobu Sakaguchi. After him are Gary Gygax, Masahiro Sakurai, Peter Molyneux, Steve Jackson, Will Wright, and John Carmack.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1952, Klaus Teuber ranks 293Before him are John D. Barrow, Anna Sui, Raisa Smetanina, Ahmed Nazif, Daisuke Gōri, and Walter Isaacson. After him are Alexis Argüello, Liu He, Martin Parr, Essam Sharaf, Kurban Berdyev, and Rick Aviles. Among people deceased in 2023, Klaus Teuber ranks 235Before him are Geraldo Majella Agnelo, Raoul Servais, Theodoros Pangalos, John Romita Sr., Aracy Balabanian, and Arsenio Iglesias. After him are Mikio Sato, Charles Simic, Barry Newman, George Winston, Marcos Alonso, and Gordon Lightfoot.

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