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Peter Henlein

1479 - 1542

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Peter Henlein (also spelled Henle or Hele) (1485 - August 1542), a locksmith and clockmaker of Nuremberg, Germany, is often considered the inventor of the watch. He was one of the first craftsmen to make small ornamental portable clocks which were often worn as pendants or attached to clothing, and which are regarded as the first watches. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Peter Henlein has received more than 434,019 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Peter Henlein is the 174th most popular inventor (up from 177th in 2019), the 2,058th most popular biography from Germany (up from 2,066th in 2019) and the 24th most popular German Inventor.

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  • 55.38

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.31

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.74

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Peter Henlein ranks 174 out of 354. Before him are Siegfried Marcus, Juan de la Cierva, 1st Count of la Cierva, Georges Claude, Shigeo Shingo, George Washington, and Ottaviano Petrucci. After him are Hubert Cecil Booth, Mikhail Dolivo-Dobrovolsky, Melvil Dewey, Matthew Boulton, Johann Christoph Denner, and Garrett Morgan.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1479, Peter Henlein ranks 7. Before him are Joanna of Castile, Hafsa Sultan, Lisa del Giocondo, Vasili III of Russia, Giuliano de' Medici, Duke of Nemours, and Diego Columbus. After him are Guru Amar Das, Francisco de Montejo, Ippolito d'Este, Vallabha, and Catherine of York. Among people deceased in 1542, Peter Henlein ranks 11. Before him are Hernando de Soto, Lapu-Lapu, Dosso Dossi, Jane Boleyn, Viscountess Rochford, Thomas Wyatt, and Sayyida al Hurra. After him are Cristóvão da Gama, Malik Muhammad Jayasi, Diego de Almagro II, Ludwig Senfl, Nikolaus Federmann, and Gasparo Contarini.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Peter Henlein ranks 2,058 out of 6,142. Before him are August Ludwig von Schlözer (1735), Martin Lawrence (1965), Johanna Budwig (1908), Bert Kaempfert (1923), Anne-Sophie Mutter (1963), and Herbert von Bismarck (1849). After him are Princess Frederica Charlotte of Prussia (1767), Friedrich Hoffmann (1660), Karl Frenzel (1911), Govert Flinck (1615), Karl Lachmann (1793), and Carl Ludvig Engel (1778).

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Among INVENTORS In Germany

Among inventors born in Germany, Peter Henlein ranks 24. Before him are Heinrich Göbel (1818), Johann Nicolaus von Dreyse (1787), Johann Nepomuk Maelzel (1772), Uziel Gal (1923), Heinrich Daniel Ruhmkorff (1803), and Siegfried Marcus (1831). After him are Johann Christoph Denner (1655), Oskar Barnack (1879), Hans von Ohain (1911), Helmut Gröttrup (1916), Max Skladanowsky (1863), and Henrich Focke (1890).

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