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Margarete Steiff

1847 - 1909

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Margarete Steiff (24 July 1847 – 9 May 1909) was a German seamstress who in 1880 founded Margarete Steiff GmbH, more widely known as Steiff, a maker of toy stuffed animals. Born in Giengen, Germany, Margarete contracted polio as a child, leaving her with both legs paralyzed and pain in her right arm. After training as a seamstress, she was able to raise enough money to purchase a sewing machine by teaching people to play the zither. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Margarete Steiff has received more than 147,291 page views. Her biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia. Margarete Steiff is the 47th most popular designer, the 2,975th most popular biography from Germany and the 8th most popular German Designer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 150k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 53.45

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.00

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.66

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among DESIGNERS

Among designers, Margarete Steiff ranks 47 out of 104. Before her are Andokides painter, Jimmy Choo, Hubert Blaine Wolfeschlegelsteinhausenbergerdorff Sr., Betsy Ross, Otl Aicher, and Luigi Colani. After her are John Baskerville, Eiko Ishioka, Syd Mead, Milton Glaser, Laura Biagiotti, and Georg Jensen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1847, Margarete Steiff ranks 49. Before her are Millicent Fawcett, Josip Belušić, Giuseppe Giacosa, Oku Yasukata, Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery, and Augusta Holmès. After her are Agathe Backer Grøndahl, Lady Adela, Frank Wigglesworth Clarke, Pavel Yablochkov, Hiệp Hòa, and Remus von Woyrsch. Among people deceased in 1909, Margarete Steiff ranks 46. Before her are Catulle Mendès, John Millington Synge, Zhang Zhidong, Friedrich Martens, Mieczysław Karłowicz, and Robert Hausmann. After her are Emil Christian Hansen, Charles-Louis Philippe, Henriëtte Ronner-Knip, Rodolphe Lindt, Walther Ritz, and Gaston, Marquis de Galliffet.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Margarete Steiff ranks 2,975 out of 7,253. Before her are Thomas Gottschalk (1950), Christian Ernst, Margrave of Brandenburg-Bayreuth (1644), Caspar Netscher (1639), Friedrich, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont (1865), Angela Voigt (1951), and Paul Carell (1911). After her are Princess Therese of Bavaria (1850), Johann Baptist Zimmermann (1680), Johann Friedrich Klotzsch (1805), Bernhard Kellermann (1879), Gustav Lombard (1895), and Carlos Schwabe (1866).

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Among DESIGNERS In Germany

Among designers born in Germany, Margarete Steiff ranks 8. Before her are Georg Elser (1903), Hugo Boss (1885), Dieter Rams (1932), Hubert Blaine Wolfeschlegelsteinhausenbergerdorff Sr. (1914), Otl Aicher (1922), and Luigi Colani (1928). After her are Anton Koberger (1440), Erik Spiekermann (1947), and Philipp Plein (1978).

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