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Ottmar Mergenthaler

1854 - 1899

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Ottmar Mergenthaler (11 May 1854 – 28 October 1899) was a German-American inventor who invented the linotype machine, the first device that could easily and quickly set complete lines of type for use in printing presses. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ottmar Mergenthaler has received more than 117,754 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Ottmar Mergenthaler is the 233rd most popular inventor (up from 243rd in 2019), the 3,068th most popular biography from Germany (down from 2,934th in 2019) and the 32nd most popular German Inventor.

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Ottmar Mergenthaler ranks 233 out of 426. Before him are Alexander Parkes, Aurel Stodola, Marcian Hoff, Hubert Cecil Booth, Christopher C. Kraft Jr., and Leonardo Torres y Quevedo. After him are Genrich Altshuller, L. L. Langstroth, Pavel Yablochkov, Georges Hébert, Hans von Ohain, and Tivadar Puskás.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1854, Ottmar Mergenthaler ranks 58. Before him are Victor Babeș, Alois Lexa von Aehrenthal, Anna Bilińska, Charles Angrand, Vasil Radoslavov, and Christiaan de Wet. After him are Adolf Erman, John Kemp Starley, Prince Thomas, Duke of Genoa, Georges Vacher de Lapouge, Arnošt Muka, and Jane Toppan. Among people deceased in 1899, Ottmar Mergenthaler ranks 32. Before him are Abdallahi ibn Muhammad, Garret Hobart, Carl Millöcker, Numa Droz, Heinrich Kiepert, and George Averoff. After him are Antonio Luna, Princess Adelheid of Schaumburg-Lippe, Juan Luna, Alfred, Hereditary Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Lucien Quélet, and Mór Than.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Ottmar Mergenthaler ranks 3,068 out of 7,253. Before him are Heinrich Scheidemann (1596), Eberhard IV, Count of Württemberg (1388), John Ernest I, Duke of Saxe-Weimar (1594), Ricarda Huch (1864), Magdalena Sibylla of Saxe-Weissenfels (1648), and Gustav Fröhlich (1902). After him are Albrecht Ritschl (1822), Enno III, Count of East Frisia (1563), Christian II, Prince of Anhalt-Bernburg (1599), Ernst von Glasersfeld (1917), Frederick Louis, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken (1619), and Maximilian, Margrave of Baden (1933).

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Among INVENTORS In Germany

Among inventors born in Germany, Ottmar Mergenthaler ranks 32. Before him are Johann Christoph Denner (1655), Oskar Barnack (1879), Carl Wilhelm Siemens (1823), Helmut Gröttrup (1916), Artur Fischer (1919), and Max Skladanowsky (1863). After him are Hans von Ohain (1911), Eugen Langen (1833), Fritz von Opel (1899), Ricardo Wolf (1887), Adolf Martens (1850), and Franz Xaver Gabelsberger (1789).

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