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Georg Luger

1849 - 1923

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Georg Johann Luger (6 March 1849 – 22 December 1923) was an Austrian designer of the famous Luger pistol and the 9×19mm Parabellum cartridge. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Georg Luger is the 164th most popular inventor (down from 141st in 2019), the 432nd most popular biography from Austria (down from 373rd in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Austrian Inventor.

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Georg Luger ranks 164 out of 426. Before him are Paul Baran, Christopher Latham Sholes, Edwin Howard Armstrong, Elizabeth Holmes, Zacharias Janssen, and Oliver Lodge. After him are Alfred Vail, Guillaume Amontons, Robert Watson-Watt, Robert Metcalfe, Charles Algernon Parsons, and Jang Yeong-sil.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1849, Georg Luger ranks 41. Before him are Hugo Riemann, Archduchess Mathilda of Austria, Jean Béraud, Hong Tianguifu, Herbert von Bismarck, and Saionji Kinmochi. After him are Empress Shōken, Dersu Uzala, William Osler, Karl Brugmann, Jérôme Eugène Coggia, and Sergei Ivanovich Mosin. Among people deceased in 1923, Georg Luger ranks 42. Before him are Théophile Steinlen, Hovhannes Tumanyan, Charles Dupuy, Albert Leo Schlageter, Théophile Delcassé, and Charles de Freycinet. After him are Bonar Law, William Ernest, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, Alexandre Ribot, Dora Pejačević, Zhang Xun, and Vatroslav Jagić.

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In Austria

Among people born in Austria, Georg Luger ranks 432 out of 1,424. Before him are Charles of Austria, Bishop of Wroclaw (1590), Prince August of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1818), Johann Nepomuk Karl, Prince of Liechtenstein (1724), Eduard Taaffe, 11th Viscount Taaffe (1833), Irmfried Eberl (1910), and Princess Maria Carolina of Bourbon-Two Sicilies (1822). After him are Adam Rainer (1899), Infanta Blanca of Spain (1868), Moritz von Schwind (1804), Franziska Donner (1900), Anna Mahler (1904), and Sigismund Francis, Archduke of Austria (1630).

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Among INVENTORS In Austria

Among inventors born in Austria, Georg Luger ranks 2. Before him are Robert Adler (1913). After him are Gaston Glock (1929), Viktor Schauberger (1885), and Štefan Banič (1870).

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