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Joseph Pilates

1883 - 1967

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Joseph Hubertus Pilates (9 December 1883 – 9 October 1967) was a German physical trainer, writer, and inventor. He is credited with inventing and promoting the Pilates method of physical fitness. He patented a total of 26 apparatuses in his lifetime. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Joseph Pilates is the 88th most popular inventor (up from 106th in 2019), the 920th most popular biography from Germany (up from 1,080th in 2019) and the 12th most popular German Inventor.

Joseph Pilates is most famous for the Pilates Method, which is a form of exercise that focuses on strengthening the core muscles and improving posture.

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Joseph Pilates ranks 88 out of 426. Before him are Jacques de Vaucanson, Paul Gottlieb Nipkow, Oleg Antonov, Ray Tomlinson, Bi Sheng, and Raymond Damadian. After him are Alphonse Bertillon, Henri Coandă, Thomas Savery, André-Jacques Garnerin, Wolfgang von Kempelen, and Johann Maria Farina.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1883, Joseph Pilates ranks 40. Before him are Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy, Douglas Fairbanks, Prince Eitel Friedrich of Prussia, Peter Kürten, Nina Ricci, and Zaifeng, Prince Chun. After him are Georgios Papanikolaou, A. S. Neill, Erich Heckel, Döme Sztójay, Zahra Khanom Tadj es-Saltaneh, and Giovanni Messe. Among people deceased in 1967, Joseph Pilates ranks 46. Before him are Shigeru Yoshida, Henry Morgenthau Jr., Héctor Scarone, Jayne Mansfield, Ossip Zadkine, and Harald Quandt. After him are Brian Epstein, Totò, Shukri al-Quwatli, Robert van Gulik, Violeta Parra, and G. W. Pabst.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Joseph Pilates ranks 920 out of 7,253. Before him are Luise Rainer (1910), Carl Friedrich Abel (1723), Elizabeth Alexeievna (1779), Christian Heinrich Friedrich Peters (1813), Kurt Eisner (1867), and Karlheinz Böhm (1928). After him are Emanuel Schikaneder (1751), Eugen Dühring (1833), Bernard Katz (1911), Marie d'Agoult (1805), Hans Sachs (1494), and Ferdinand Albert II, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (1680).

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Among INVENTORS In Germany

Among inventors born in Germany, Joseph Pilates ranks 12. Before him are Werner von Siemens (1816), Wilhelm Maybach (1846), Karl Drais (1785), Konrad Zuse (1910), Adam Opel (1837), and Emile Berliner (1851). After him are Johann Philipp Reis (1834), Theobald Boehm (1794), Hans von Ohain (1911), Alfred Krupp (1812), Hugo Schmeisser (1884), and Siegfried Marcus (1831).

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