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Melitta Bentz

1873 - 1950

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Amalie Auguste Melitta Bentz (née Amalie Auguste Melitta Liebscher), best known as Melitta Bentz (January 31, 1873 – June 29, 1950), was a German inventor and entrepreneur known for revolutionizing the process of coffee brewing with her innovation of the coffee filter. This was an outstanding achievement that stemmed from her desire to make a cleaner cup of coffee. Her company, Melitta Company, remains a significant leader in the coffee industry nowadays. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Melitta Bentz has received more than 354,965 page views. Her biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Melitta Bentz is the 156th most popular businessperson (down from 149th in 2019), the 1,473rd most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,363rd in 2019) and the 17th most popular German Businessperson.

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  • 350k

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  • 59.05

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 24

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.46

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.16

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among BUSINESSPEOPLE

Among businesspeople, Melitta Bentz ranks 156 out of 847. Before her are Basil Zaharoff, Vincenzo Lancia, Ron Dennis, Françoise Bettencourt Meyers, Amschel Mayer Rothschild, and John Langenus. After her are Henry Ford II, Lorenzo Sanz, Fredrik Idestam, Malcolm Glazer, Karl Albrecht, and Johnny Kitagawa.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1873, Melitta Bentz ranks 47. Before her are Jakob Wassermann, Eliel Saarinen, Prince Luigi Amedeo, Duke of the Abruzzi, Hugo Simberg, Ma Barker, and Thorvald Stauning. After her are Liang Qichao, Fritz Thyssen, Arnold van Gennep, Theodor Körner, Nadežda Petrović, and Leo Frobenius. Among people deceased in 1950, Melitta Bentz ranks 43. Before her are Francesco Cilea, Constantin Carathéodory, Eliel Saarinen, John Rabe, Henry L. Stimson, and Emil Abderhalden. After her are Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, Archibald Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell, Fevzi Çakmak, Vasil Kolarov, Jan Smuts, and Charles Koechlin.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Melitta Bentz ranks 1,473 out of 7,253. Before her are Werner Best (1903), Johann Eck (1486), Amschel Mayer Rothschild (1773), Anton von Werner (1843), Peter Minuit (1589), and Johann II, Duke of Saxe-Weimar (1570). After her are Walter Warlimont (1894), Christian Wulff (1959), Frederick II, Elector Palatine (1482), Adam Olearius (1603), Hans Vaihinger (1852), and August Oetker (1862).

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE In Germany

Among businesspeople born in Germany, Melitta Bentz ranks 17. Before her are Bertha Benz (1849), Nathan Mayer Rothschild (1777), Uli Hoeneß (1952), James Mayer de Rothschild (1792), Johann Friedrich Böttger (1682), and Amschel Mayer Rothschild (1773). After her are Karl Albrecht (1920), Salomon Mayer von Rothschild (1774), Axel Springer (1912), Maurice de Hirsch (1831), Carl Laemmle (1867), and Dieter Schwarz (1939).

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