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Johann Nepomuk Maelzel

1772 - 1838

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Johann Nepomuk Maelzel (or Mälzel; August 15, 1772 – July 21, 1838) was a German inventor, engineer, and showman, best known for manufacturing a metronome and several music-playing automatons and displaying a fraudulent chess machine. He worked with Beethoven to compose a piece of music for one of his inventions. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Johann Nepomuk Maelzel is the 150th most popular inventor (up from 171st in 2019), the 1,754th most popular biography from Germany (up from 2,066th in 2019) and the 19th most popular German Inventor.

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Johann Nepomuk Maelzel ranks 150 out of 426. Before him are John Kay, Robert Stirling, Peter Cooper, Siegfried Marcus, Richard Jordan Gatling, and Robert Cailliau. After him are Henri Giffard, Mary Anderson, Peter Henlein, Robert Moog, Friedrich Zander, and Mikhail Dolivo-Dobrovolsky.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1772, Johann Nepomuk Maelzel ranks 16. Before him are Fath-Ali Shah Qajar, Louis Antoine, Duke of Enghien, Nachman of Breslov, Tarrare, Charles Leclerc, and Marie Anne Lenormand. After him are Henri de la Rochejaquelein, Jean-Étienne Dominique Esquirol, William Wirt, Prince Louis Ferdinand of Prussia, Burgravine Louise Isabelle of Kirchberg, and Anton Friedrich Justus Thibaut. Among people deceased in 1838, Johann Nepomuk Maelzel ranks 14. Before him are Pierre Louis Dulong, Ivan Kotliarevsky, Bernard Courtois, Anselme Gaëtan Desmarest, Antoine Isaac Silvestre de Sacy, and Frédéric Cuvier. After him are Ferdinand Ries, Hussein Dey, Bernhard Crusell, René Caillié, Charles Percier, and Heinrich Marx.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Johann Nepomuk Maelzel ranks 1,754 out of 7,253. Before him are Johann Heinrich Friedrich Link (1767), Monika Ertl (1937), Ulay (1943), Johann Schein (1586), Augustus the Younger, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1579), and Leonhart Fuchs (1501). After him are Constantin von Tischendorf (1815), Princess Louise of Hesse-Darmstadt (1761), Ferdinand Ries (1784), Eugen Jochum (1902), Christian Friedrich Hebbel (1813), and Hans Burgkmair (1473).

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Among INVENTORS In Germany

Among inventors born in Germany, Johann Nepomuk Maelzel ranks 19. Before him are Johann Philipp Reis (1834), Theobald Boehm (1794), Hans von Ohain (1911), Alfred Krupp (1812), Hugo Schmeisser (1884), and Siegfried Marcus (1831). After him are Peter Henlein (1479), Heinrich Göbel (1818), Uziel Gal (1923), Henrich Focke (1890), Artur Fischer (1919), and Johann Nicolaus von Dreyse (1787).

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