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Josef Ressel

1793 - 1857

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Josef Ludwig Franz Ressel (Czech: Josef Ludvík František Ressel; June 29, 1793 – October 9, 1857) was a Bohemia-born Austrian forester and inventor who designed one of the first working ship's propellers. Ressel was born in Chrudim, Bohemia then part of the Holy Roman Empire ruled by the Habsburg monarchy, which became part of the Austrian Empire in 1804. His father Anton Hermann Ressel was a native German speaker, and his mother Marie Anna Konvičková was a native Czech speaker. He studied at the Linz Gymnasium, Budweis (in today's České Budějovice) artillery school, University of Vienna and the Mariabrunn Forestry Academy at Mariabrunn Monastery then near (now in) Vienna. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Josef Ressel is the 135th most popular inventor (down from 121st in 2019), the 176th most popular biography from Czechia (down from 160th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Czech Inventor.

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Josef Ressel ranks 135 out of 426. Before him are Christopher C. Kraft Jr., Robert Adler, Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville, W. O. Bentley, Percy Spencer, and Elisha Gray. After him are Hugo Schmeisser, Zénobe Gramme, Elias Howe, Mary the Jewess, Jean-Pierre Blanchard, and Taiichi Ohno.

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Among people born in 1793, Josef Ressel ranks 15. Before him are Nana Asmaʼu, Ludwig Reichenbach, Michel Chasles, Maria Teresa, Princess of Beira, Radama I, and James Dunlop. After him are Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller, Charles Paul de Kock, Sam Houston, Tokugawa Ieyoshi, Thomas Addison, and Karl Lachmann. Among people deceased in 1857, Josef Ressel ranks 20. Before him are Pierre-Jean de Béranger, Louis Jacques Thénard, Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff, Alcide d'Orbigny, Gulab Singh, and Johan Christian Dahl. After him are Mangal Pandey, Marquis de Custine, Achille Devéria, George Cayley, Daniele Manin, and Dionysios Solomos.

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, Josef Ressel ranks 176 out of 1,200. Before him are Blanche of Valois (1316), Balthasar Neumann (1687), Vladislaus II, Duke of Bohemia (1110), Leo Perutz (1882), Ivo Viktor (1942), and Prince Felix of Schwarzenberg (1800). After him are Milada Horáková (1901), Adolf Schärf (1890), Petr Čech (1982), Dana Zátopková (1922), Archduke Eugen of Austria (1863), and Herbert Lom (1917).

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Among INVENTORS In Czechia

Among inventors born in Czechia, Josef Ressel ranks 4. Before him are Alois Senefelder (1771), Daniel Swarovski (1862), and Franz Reichelt (1879). After him are Prokop Diviš (1698), and František Křižík (1847).

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