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Melitta Bentz

1873 - 1950

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Amalie Auguste Melitta Bentz (31 January 1873 – 29 June 1950), born Amalie Auguste Melitta Liebscher, was a German entrepreneur who invented the paper coffee filter in 1908. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Melitta Bentz has received more than 330,189 page views. Her biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Melitta Bentz is the 149th most popular businessperson (up from 286th in 2019), the 1,363rd most popular biography from Germany (up from 2,909th in 2019) and the 17th most popular German Businessperson.

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  • 330k

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  • 58.71

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.00

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.80

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE

Among businesspeople, Melitta Bentz ranks 149 out of 601Before her are Johann Friedrich Böttger, Larry Silverstein, Jawed Karim, Giovanni Battista Caproni, Shibusawa Eiichi, and Christina Onassis. After her are William C. Durant, Al-Waleed bin Talal, Ferdinand Anton Ernst Porsche, John Sculley, Massimo Moratti, and Chaleo Yoovidhya.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1873, Melitta Bentz ranks 40Before her are Constantin Carathéodory, Lee de Forest, Prince Luigi Amedeo, Duke of the Abruzzi, Charles Péguy, Ray Ewry, and Tullio Levi-Civita. After her are Hayim Nahman Bialik, Liang Qichao, Otto Wels, Jakob Wassermann, Radoje Domanović, and Fritz Thyssen. Among people deceased in 1950, Melitta Bentz ranks 42Before her are Werner Haase, Jan Smuts, Grigory Kulik, Mao Anying, Constantin Carathéodory, and Francesco Cilea. After her are Liane de Pougy, Emil Abderhalden, Eliel Saarinen, Archibald Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell, Salvatore Giuliano, and Alfred Korzybski.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Melitta Bentz ranks 1,363 out of 6,142Before her are Sophie Magdalene of Brandenburg-Kulmbach (1700), Bruno the Great (925), Adolph Wagner (1835), Joachim Fest (1926), Albert II, Margrave of Meissen (1240), and Walther von Seydlitz-Kurzbach (1888). After her are Stéphane Hessel (1917), Hermine Reuss of Greiz (1887), Princess Adelgunde of Bavaria (1823), William I, Elector of Hesse (1743), Friedrich Hund (1896), and Maria Josepha Amalia of Saxony (1803).

Among BUSINESSPEOPLE In Germany

Among businesspeople born in Germany, Melitta Bentz ranks 17Before her are Bertha Benz (1849), Nathan Mayer Rothschild (1777), James Mayer de Rothschild (1792), Uli Hoeneß (1952), Johann Friedrich Böttger (1682), and Jawed Karim (1979). After her are Karl Albrecht (1920), Dietmar Hopp (1940), Karl Baedeker (1801), Axel Springer (1912), Maurice de Hirsch (1831), and Friedrich Alfred Krupp (1854).