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Oskar Barnack

1879 - 1936

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Oskar Barnack (Nuthe-Urstromtal, Brandenburg, 1 November 1879 – Bad Nauheim, Hesse, 16 January 1936) was a German inventor and photographer who built, in 1913, what would later become the first commercially successful 35mm still-camera, subsequently called Ur-Leica at Ernst Leitz Optische Werke (the Leitz factory) in Wetzlar. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Oskar Barnack has received more than 135,287 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia. Oskar Barnack is the 197th most popular inventor (down from 195th in 2019), the 2,425th most popular biography from Germany (down from 2,288th in 2019) and the 27th most popular German Inventor.

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Oskar Barnack ranks 197 out of 426. Before him are Jethro Tull, Orban, Christopher Latham Sholes, Charles Xavier Thomas, David Edward Hughes, and Lillian Moller Gilbreth. After him are Eunice Newton Foote, Émile Baudot, David Schwarz, Raymond Damadian, Carl Wilhelm Siemens, and Henry Maudslay.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1879, Oskar Barnack ranks 82. Before him are Sándor Garbai, Hu Hanmin, Henri Wallon, Eli Heckscher, Kosta Pećanac, and Patrick Pearse. After him are Johan Nygaardsvold, Aleksandër Moisiu, Thomas Beecham, Thành Thái, Vanessa Bell, and José Millán-Astray. Among people deceased in 1936, Oskar Barnack ranks 84. Before him are Alexander Tamanian, Jean-Baptiste Charcot, Hu Hanmin, Nestor Lakoba, Alexandros Zaimis, and Zahra Khanom Tadj es-Saltaneh. After him are Louis Camille Maillard, Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje, José Calvo Sotelo, Wilhelm Meyer-Lübke, Johannes Franz Hartmann, and Georgios Kondylis.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Oskar Barnack ranks 2,425 out of 7,253. Before him are John I, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken (1550), Philipp Ludwig Statius Müller (1725), Sahra Wagenknecht (1969), Karlheinz Deschner (1924), Hans Tilkowski (1935), and Winfried Schäfer (1950). After him are Wieland Wagner (1917), Lujo Brentano (1844), Princess Hilda of Nassau (1864), Friedrich Hoffmann (1660), Johann Nikolaus Forkel (1749), and Heinz-Harald Frentzen (1967).

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Among INVENTORS In Germany

Among inventors born in Germany, Oskar Barnack ranks 27. Before him are Johann Nicolaus von Dreyse (1787), Siegfried Marcus (1831), Johann Nepomuk Maelzel (1772), Henrich Focke (1890), Heinrich Daniel Ruhmkorff (1803), and Johann Christoph Denner (1655). After him are Carl Wilhelm Siemens (1823), Helmut Gröttrup (1916), Artur Fischer (1919), Max Skladanowsky (1863), Ottmar Mergenthaler (1854), and Hans von Ohain (1911).

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