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Sequoyah

1770 - 1843

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Sequoyah (ᏍᏏᏉᏯ Ssiquoya) (* um 1763 in Tuskegee; † August 1843 in San Fernando) war der Erfinder der Cherokee-Schrift, die beim Schreiben der Cherokee-Sprache noch heute verwendet wird. Sequoyah (englisch überwiegend George Guess genannt, gelegentlich auch Gist, Guist oder Guyst geschrieben) war der Sohn einer Cherokee-Indianerin und eines unlizenzierten Händlers europäischer Herkunft. Das Kind wuchs jedoch ohne seinen Vater im indianischen Umfeld auf. Seine Mutter, die zum „Red paint“-Clan der Cherokee (Aniwodi-Clan) gehörte, betrieb in Tuskegee einen Handelsposten. Mehr auf Wikipedia lesen

His biography is available in 43 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 42 in 2024). Sequoyah is the 192nd most popular erfinder (down from 143rd in 2024), the 3,199th most popular biography from United States (down from 1,941st in 2019) and the 53rd most popular American Erfinder.

Sequoyah is most famous for creating the Cherokee alphabet.

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Among Erfinders

Among erfinders, Sequoyah ranks 192 out of 426. Before him are Fausto Veranzio, Heinrich Daniel Ruhmkorff, Johann Jacob Schweppe, Arnold Orville Beckman, Lucien Olivier, and Larry Sanger. After him are Johann Christoph Denner, George de Mestral, Viktor Schauberger, Ottaviano Petrucci, Garrett Morgan, and J. Presper Eckert.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1770, Sequoyah ranks 31. Before him are Charles Emmanuel, Prince of Carignano, Zaman Shah Durrani, Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool, François Étienne de Kellermann, Lucile Desmoulins, and Dominique Vandamme. After him are Princess Maria Christina of Saxony, Amédée Louis Michel le Peletier, comte de Saint-Fargeau, Étienne Pivert de Senancour, Alexander Ivanovich Ostermann-Tolstoy, Gabriel Jean Joseph Molitor, and Georges Mouton. Among people deceased in 1843, Sequoyah ranks 15. Before him are Theodoros Kolokotronis, John Armstrong Jr., Marie Anne Lenormand, Prince Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex, Robert Southey, and Peter Wittgenstein. After him are Charles Macintosh, Alexis Bouvard, Casimir Delavigne, Miguel Ricardo de Álava, Jakob Friedrich Fries, and Ippolito Rosellini.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Sequoyah ranks 3,199 out of 20,380. Before him are Robert Hansen (1939), Anikka Albrite (1988), Moses Finley (1912), Irene Cara (1959), Herbert Blumer (1900), and Maxwell D. Taylor (1901). After him are Danny Sullivan (1950), Diane Ladd (1935), Tom Savini (1946), Judith Resnik (1949), Michael Kelly (1969), and Brandon deWilde (1942).

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Among Erfinders In United States

Among erfinders born in United States, Sequoyah ranks 53. Before him are Elizabeth Holmes (1984), Alfred Vail (1807), Robert Metcalfe (1946), Harold Eugene Edgerton (1903), Arnold Orville Beckman (1900), and Larry Sanger (1968). After him are Garrett Morgan (1877), J. Presper Eckert (1919), Eunice Newton Foote (1819), Royal Rife (1888), Melvil Dewey (1851), and Lillian Moller Gilbreth (1878).

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