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Siegfried Marcus

1831 - 1898

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Siegfried Samuel Marcus (German: [ˈziːkfʁiːt ˈmaʁkʊs]; 18 September 1831 – 1 July 1898) was a German inventor. Marcus was born of Jewish descent in Malchin, in the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Siegfried Marcus has received more than 229,798 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia. Siegfried Marcus is the 168th most popular inventor (down from 162nd in 2019), the 1,999th most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,887th in 2019) and the 23rd most popular German Inventor.

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Siegfried Marcus ranks 168 out of 354Before him are Orban, Robert Cailliau, Edwin Howard Armstrong, Heinrich Daniel Ruhmkorff, Charles Cros, and David Edward Hughes. After him are Juan de la Cierva, 1st Count of la Cierva, Georges Claude, Shigeo Shingo, George Washington, Ottaviano Petrucci, and Peter Henlein.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1831, Siegfried Marcus ranks 39Before him are Nadezhda von Meck, George Victor, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont, Frederick I, Duke of Anhalt, Princess Helena of Nassau, Maurice de Hirsch, and David Edward Hughes. After him are Philip Sheridan, Ankō Itosu, Princess Charlotte of Prussia, George Pullman, Ludvig Nobel, and Prince August, Duke of Dalarna. Among people deceased in 1898, Siegfried Marcus ranks 30Before him are Princess Maria Antonia of the Two Sicilies, Prince Gong, Georges Rodenbach, Zachris Topelius, Princess Francisca of Brazil, and Tuone Udaina. After him are Pavel Tretyakov, Archduke Leopold Ludwig of Austria, Georg Ebers, George Müller, Carl Zeller, and Antoine François Marmontel.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Siegfried Marcus ranks 1,999 out of 6,142Before him are Lotte Reiniger (1899), William, Prince of Hohenzollern (1864), Landgravine Marie Louise of Hesse-Kassel (1688), Gershon Kingsley (1922), Eduard Meyer (1855), and Julius Plücker (1801). After him are Princess Mathilde Caroline of Bavaria (1813), Rachel Félix (1821), Gotthelf Fischer von Waldheim (1771), Jaromír, Duke of Bohemia (1000), Alfred Schmidt (1931), and Ferdinand Sauerbruch (1875).

Among INVENTORS In Germany

Among inventors born in Germany, Siegfried Marcus ranks 23Before him are Johann Jacob Schweppe (1740), Heinrich Göbel (1818), Johann Nicolaus von Dreyse (1787), Johann Nepomuk Maelzel (1772), Uziel Gal (1923), and Heinrich Daniel Ruhmkorff (1803). After him are Peter Henlein (1479), Johann Christoph Denner (1655), Oskar Barnack (1879), Hans von Ohain (1911), Helmut Gröttrup (1916), and Max Skladanowsky (1863).