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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 110,319 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia. Ottmar Mergenthaler is the 243rd most popular inventor (down from 217th in 2019), the 2,937th most popular biography from Germany (down from 2,558th in 2019) and the 36th most popular German Inventor.

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Ottmar Mergenthaler ranks 243 out of 354. Before him are Fritz von Opel, Léon Gaumont, David Schwarz, James Dyson, Joseph Whitworth, and Alexander Parkes. After him are Theodore Maiman, Glenn Curtiss, Ray Dolby, Frank Zamboni, Jacob W. Davis, and Ottó Bláthy.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1854, Ottmar Mergenthaler ranks 61. Before him are Prince Thomas, Duke of Genoa, Anna Bilińska, Isidor Gunsberg, Charles Angrand, Adolf Erman, and Franz Rohr von Denta. After him are Konstantin Jireček, Ruth Belville, Christiaan de Wet, Yehuda Pen, Benjamin Tucker, and Vasil Radoslavov. Among people deceased in 1899, Ottmar Mergenthaler ranks 32. Before him are Garret Hobart, Princess Adelheid of Schaumburg-Lippe, Matsumura Sōkon, Vincas Kudirka, Carl Millöcker, and Lucien Quélet. After him are Guido Gezelle, Heinrich Kiepert, Robert G. Ingersoll, Dwight L. Moody, Teodolfo Mertel, and Sophronius IV of Alexandria.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Ottmar Mergenthaler ranks 2,937 out of 6,142. Before him are Freimut Börngen (1930), Otto Pfister (1937), Karl Krumbacher (1856), Frederick, Hereditary Prince of Anhalt-Dessau (1769), Paul Ben-Haim (1897), and Alfred Schwarzmann (1912). After him are Georg Eberhard Rumphius (1627), Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland (1762), Karl Weyprecht (1838), Louis Eugene, Duke of Württemberg (1731), Anita Berber (1899), and Jakob Friedrich Fries (1773).

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Among INVENTORS In Germany

Among inventors born in Germany, Ottmar Mergenthaler ranks 36. Before him are Henrich Focke (1890), Ricardo Wolf (1887), Artur Fischer (1919), Carl Wilhelm Siemens (1823), Eugen Langen (1833), and Fritz von Opel (1899). After him are Adolf Martens (1850), Franz Xaver Gabelsberger (1789), Walter Bruch (1908), Albrecht Berblinger (1770), Karl Jatho (1873), and Andy Bechtolsheim (1955).

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