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Otto Lilienthal

1848 - 1896

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Karl Wilhelm Otto Lilienthal (23 May 1848 – 10 August 1896) was a German pioneer of aviation who became known as the "flying man". He was the first person to make well-documented, repeated, successful flights with gliders, therefore making the idea of heavier-than-air aircraft a reality. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Otto Lilienthal has received more than 799,068 page views. His biography is available in 57 different languages on Wikipedia. Otto Lilienthal is the 13th most popular engineer (up from 14th in 2019), the 377th most popular biography from Germany (down from 374th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular German Engineer.

Otto Lilienthal was a German engineer and inventor who is most famous for inventing the first successful human-powered aircraft.

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Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, Otto Lilienthal ranks 13 out of 389. Before him are Frederick Winslow Taylor, Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, Sergei Korolev, Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban, Umberto Nobile, and André Citroën. After him are Alexei Kosygin, Leslie Groves, Anatoly Dyatlov, Tsutomu Yamaguchi, Fritz Todt, and José Echegaray.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1848, Otto Lilienthal ranks 5. Before him are Paul Gauguin, Octave Mirbeau, Vilfredo Pareto, and Gottlob Frege. After him are Helmuth von Moltke the Younger, Gustave Caillebotte, Otto of Bavaria, Joris-Karl Huysmans, Arthur Balfour, Tōgō Heihachirō, and Hugo de Vries. Among people deceased in 1896, Otto Lilienthal ranks 10. Before him are Paul Verlaine, Archduke Karl Ludwig of Austria, August Kekulé, William Morris, Ivar Aasen, and Hippolyte Fizeau. After him are José Rizal, John Everett Millais, Naser al-Din Shah Qajar, Harriet Beecher Stowe, H. H. Holmes, and Edmond de Goncourt.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Otto Lilienthal ranks 377 out of 7,253. Before him are Otto Heinrich Warburg (1883), Hans Lippershey (1570), Chlodio (393), Peter Behrens (1868), Joseph von Fraunhofer (1787), and Joachim Löw (1960). After him are Caroline Herschel (1750), Werner Herzog (1942), Rudolf Carnap (1891), Albrecht Kossel (1853), Alfred von Schlieffen (1833), and Alexandra Feodorovna (1798).

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Among ENGINEERS In Germany

Among engineers born in Germany, Otto Lilienthal ranks 2. Before him are Gottlieb Daimler (1834). After him are Fritz Todt (1891), August Horch (1868), Willy Messerschmitt (1898), Albert Göring (1895), Hugo Junkers (1859), Felix Wankel (1902), Ernst Heinkel (1888), Arthur Scherbius (1878), Kurt Gerstein (1905), and Walter Dornberger (1895).

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