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Heinrich von Stephan

1831 - 1897

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Ernst Heinrich Wilhelm von Stephan (born Heinrich Stephan, January 7, 1831 – April 8, 1897) was a general post director for the German Empire who reorganized the German postal service. He was integral in the founding of the Universal Postal Union in 1874, and in 1877 introduced the telephone to Germany. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Heinrich von Stephan is the 13,448th most popular politician (down from 13,069th in 2019), the 865th most popular biography from Poland (down from 852nd in 2019) and the 198th most popular Polish Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Heinrich von Stephan ranks 13,448 out of 19,576Before him are Joseph Arthur Ankrah, Emiliano Chamorro Vargas, John I de la Roche, Gheorghe Bibescu, Leopold II, Prince of Lippe, and Geoffrey I of Provence. After him are Bogoljub Jevtić, Mleh, Prince of Armenia, Richard Cobden, Rafael Núñez, Guaimar IV of Salerno, and Víctor Raúl Haya de la Torre.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1831, Heinrich von Stephan ranks 82Before him are Georg Sauerwein, Arsenio Martínez Campos, Gaston, Marquis de Galliffet, Edward Routh, Gustav Radde, and Friedrich Gerhard Rohlfs. After him are Archibald Scott Couper, Reinhold Begas, Ippolito Nievo, Eduard von Martens, Fran Levstik, and Ludvig Norman. Among people deceased in 1897, Heinrich von Stephan ranks 60Before him are Charles-Denis Bourbaki, Édouard Deldevez, Japetus Steenstrup, Alvan Graham Clark, Jules de Burlet, and William Henry Conley. After him are James Legge, Alfred Des Cloizeaux, Aleko Konstantinov, Willem Roelofs, Gotō Shōjirō, and Princess Agnes of Anhalt-Dessau.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Heinrich von Stephan ranks 865 out of 1,694Before him are Franz Felix Adalbert Kuhn (1812), Michael Sela (1924), Agnieszka Osiecka (1936), Władysław Ślewiński (1856), Zofia Zamenhof (1889), and Heinrich von Kittlitz (1799). After him are Jan Śniadecki (1756), Boris Kaufman (1906), Broncia Koller-Pinell (1863), Leopold von Wiese (1876), Aleksander Skrzyński (1882), and Paweł Adamowicz (1965).

Among POLITICIANS In Poland

Among politicians born in Poland, Heinrich von Stephan ranks 198Before him are Edward Osóbka-Morawski (1909), Józef Oleksy (1946), Frederick II of Legnica (1480), Henry, Duke of Anhalt-Köthen (1778), Wojciech Korfanty (1873), and Marek Belka (1952). After him are Aleksander Skrzyński (1882), Paweł Adamowicz (1965), Jan Klemens Branicki (1689), Kazimierz Sosnkowski (1885), Ignacy Potocki (1750), and Henryk Sławik (1894).