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Johann Nicolaus von Dreyse

1787 - 1867

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Johann Nicolaus von Dreyse (20 November 1787 – 9 December 1867) was a German firearms inventor and manufacturer. He is most famous for submitting the Dreyse needle gun in 1836 to the Prussian army, which was adopted for service in December 1840 as the Leichte Perkussions-Gewehr M 1841 – a name deliberately chosen to mislead about the rifle's mechanism – later renamed Zündnadelgewehr M 1841 in 1855. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Johann Nicolaus von Dreyse is the 185th most popular inventor (down from 162nd in 2019), the 2,316th most popular biography from Germany (down from 2,010th in 2019) and the 25th most popular German Inventor.

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Johann Nicolaus von Dreyse ranks 185 out of 426. Before him are Artur Fischer, Harold Eugene Edgerton, Matthew Boulton, Lagâri Hasan Çelebi, Gunther von Hagens, and William Murdoch. After him are Fausto Veranzio, Heinrich Daniel Ruhmkorff, Johann Jacob Schweppe, Arnold Orville Beckman, Lucien Olivier, and Larry Sanger.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1787, Johann Nicolaus von Dreyse ranks 21. Before him are Alexander Sergeyevich Menshikov, Nils Gabriel Sefström, Ludwig Uhland, Christian Ludwig Brehm, James Weddell, and Eléonore Denuelle de La Plaigne. After him are Delphine LaLaurie, Friedrich Krupp, François Sudre, Muhammad ibn Ali as-Senussi, Eliza Poe, and Francisco de Paula Martínez de la Rosa y Berdejo. Among people deceased in 1867, Johann Nicolaus von Dreyse ranks 27. Before him are Princess Louise Caroline of Hesse-Kassel, Archduke Stephen, Palatine of Hungary, Théophile-Jules Pelouze, Archduchess Mathilda of Austria, Friedlieb Ferdinand Runge, and Miguel Miramón. After him are Faustin Soulouque, Takasugi Shinsaku, Jean Pierre Flourens, Armand Trousseau, Mirko Petrović-Njegoš, and August Böckh.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Johann Nicolaus von Dreyse ranks 2,317 out of 7,253. Before him are Albert Bormann (1902), Christian II, Elector of Saxony (1583), Duchess Louise Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1779), Ernst Gräfenberg (1881), August Leskien (1840), and Carl Zuckmayer (1896). After him are Jan Assmann (1938), Erich Rudorffer (1917), Henry Oldenburg (1619), Otto Henry, Elector Palatine (1502), Dieter Müller (1954), and Nico Hülkenberg (1987).

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Among INVENTORS In Germany

Among inventors born in Germany, Johann Nicolaus von Dreyse ranks 25. Before him are Johann Nepomuk Maelzel (1772), Peter Henlein (1479), Heinrich Göbel (1818), Uziel Gal (1923), Henrich Focke (1890), and Artur Fischer (1919). After him are Heinrich Daniel Ruhmkorff (1803), Johann Jacob Schweppe (1740), Johann Christoph Denner (1655), Max Skladanowsky (1863), Helmut Gröttrup (1916), and Carl Wilhelm Siemens (1823).

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