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Theobald Boehm

1794 - 1881

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Theobald Böhm (or Boehm) (9 April 1794 – 25 November 1881) was a German inventor and musician, who greatly improved the modern Western concert flute and its fingering system (now known as the "Boehm system"). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Theobald Boehm has received more than 151,986 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Theobald Boehm is the 119th most popular inventor (down from 115th in 2019), the 1,284th most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,170th in 2019) and the 15th most popular German Inventor.

Theobald Boehm was a German flute maker who is most famous for inventing the Boehm system flute in 1847.

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Theobald Boehm ranks 119 out of 426. Before him are Alfred Krupp, Zacharias Janssen, Charles-Émile Reynaud, Josiah Warren, André Michelin, and Hiram Maxim. After him are Percy Spencer, Josef Ressel, Johann Jacob Schweppe, Henri Giffard, Taiichi Ohno, and Nikolai Kardashev.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1794, Theobald Boehm ranks 6. Before him are Antonio López de Santa Anna, Matthew C. Perry, Cornelius Vanderbilt, Elias Magnus Fries, and Infante Francisco de Paula, Duke of Cádiz. After him are William Whewell, Józef Bem, Ignaz Moscheles, Wilhelm Müller, Aimable Pélissier, and Eduard Rüppell. Among people deceased in 1881, Theobald Boehm ranks 19. Before him are Henri Vieuxtemps, Nikolay Pirogov, Henri-Frédéric Amiel, Nikolai Rubinstein, Empress Dowager Ci'an, and Caroline Amalie of Augustenburg. After him are Hermann Lotze, Pierre Napoléon Bonaparte, Eduard Heine, Prince Frederick of the Netherlands, Johan Vilhelm Snellman, and Ludwig von Benedek.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Theobald Boehm ranks 1,284 out of 7,253. Before him are Ferdinand Albert II, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (1680), Ernst Lindemann (1894), Elizabeth of Carinthia, Queen of Germany (1262), Til Schweiger (1963), Siegfried Kracauer (1889), and Erwin Piscator (1893). After him are Duchess Marie of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1854), Paul Langerhans (1847), John Casimir, Count Palatine of Kleeburg (1589), Constantin Carathéodory (1873), Jens Lehmann (1969), and Hannah Höch (1889).

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Among INVENTORS In Germany

Among inventors born in Germany, Theobald Boehm ranks 15. Before him are Karl Drais (1785), Emile Berliner (1851), Adam Opel (1837), Joseph Pilates (1883), Johann Philipp Reis (1834), and Alfred Krupp (1812). After him are Johann Jacob Schweppe (1740), Hugo Schmeisser (1884), Uziel Gal (1923), Peter Henlein (1479), Heinrich Göbel (1818), and Johann Nicolaus von Dreyse (1787).

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