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Alois Senefelder

1771 - 1834

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Johann Alois Senefelder (6 November 1771 – 26 February 1834) was a German actor and playwright who invented the printing technique of lithography in the 1790s. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Alois Senefelder is the 79th most popular inventor (down from 78th in 2019), the 96th most popular biography from Czechia (down from 94th in 2019) and the most popular Czech Inventor.

Alois Senefelder is most famous for inventing the process of lithography, a printing technique that uses an oil-based ink to create an image on paper.

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Alois Senefelder ranks 79 out of 426. Before him are Claude Chappe, George Eastman, Léon Theremin, Jacques Piccard, James Naismith, and John Browning. After him are Rowland Hill, Charles K. Kao, Jacques de Vaucanson, Paul Gottlieb Nipkow, Oleg Antonov, and Ray Tomlinson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1771, Alois Senefelder ranks 10. Before him are Emperor Kōkaku, Archduke Charles, Duke of Teschen, Richard Trevithick, Julie Clary, Antoine-Jean Gros, and Gotthelf Fischer von Waldheim. After him are Karl Philipp, Prince of Schwarzenberg, Marie François Xavier Bichat, Jean-Andoche Junot, Laskarina Bouboulina, Princess Louise Auguste of Denmark, and Mungo Park. Among people deceased in 1834, Alois Senefelder ranks 9. Before him are Pedro I of Brazil, Friedrich Schleiermacher, Joseph Marie Jacquard, Sunjo of Joseon, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and François-Adrien Boieldieu. After him are Fath-Ali Shah Qajar, Karl Ludwig Harding, Prince William Frederick, Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh, William Carey, Jacques Balmat, and Husein Gradaščević.

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, Alois Senefelder ranks 96 out of 1,200. Before him are Victor Lustig (1890), Josef Hoffmann (1870), Jan Dismas Zelenka (1679), Henry of Bohemia (1265), Johann Stamitz (1717), and Christoph Schönborn (1945). After him are Maria Theresa of Austria-Este (1849), Hans-Adam I, Prince of Liechtenstein (1662), Pavel Nedvěd (1972), Antonín Novotný (1904), Matthias Sindelar (1903), and Anne of Bohemia (1366).

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Among INVENTORS In Czechia

Among inventors born in Czechia, Alois Senefelder ranks 1. After him are Daniel Swarovski (1862), Franz Reichelt (1879), Josef Ressel (1793), Prokop Diviš (1698), and František Křižík (1847).

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